Practice Assistant (Real Estate)

Do you have experience in a legal environment? Are you a effective communicator that can build strong client relationships?
The Role
Our client, a top-50 UK law firm, is looking for a Practice Assistant (Real Estate) to join their Bristol team.

Your responsibilities include:

• Manage client relationships, responsible for keeping up to date with client specific protocols and processes
• Assist with the organisation of and support with the scheduling of client events, tender meetings, and client training
• Assist with the organisation of tenders and pitches to ensure the document creation process is managed effectively and to the highest standard
• Support Lawyers in business development activities, including preparation of pitches and presentations
• Manage diaries, organise travel and accommodation, book meeting rooms, prepare and circulate agendas and papers
• Keeping CRM up to date
• Minute taking, uploading documents to PDF, arrange photocopying, printing etc.
• Managing expenses, responsible for client billing process and assisting partners and business development for client and event billing
• Requesting cheques, bank transfers, and paying in money received
• Responsible for managing the creation and maintenance of data rooms and client information
• Monitoring post/emails and ensuring client related correspondence is passed to the appropriate lawyer

Your skills:

• Organised and methodical with excellent attention to detail
• Proven experience of managing high level client facing tasks and priorities
• Customer/client service focused
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Positive can-do attitude with the ability to adapt to change
• Excellent team player
• Taking responsibility and accountability for quality of own work
• Effective problem solver

If this sounds like you, please apply today.