Legal Support Assistant

1 month ago

Singapur, Singapore Herbert Smith Freehills Full time
JOB DESCRIPTION

About Herbert Smith Freehills

As one of the world’s leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.

We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.


The Opportunity

We are seeking a Legal Support Assistant to provide secretarial and administrative support in a timely and responsive manner to legal staff, with a consistent and high standard of quality to partners, lawyers and business services staff in the practice group to meet client requirements and deadlines to deliver an exceptional client experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide timely and accurate support to lawyers and business service managers, with administrative support needs. Deliver high quality, accurate work whilst managing deadlines, responding to change and the competing priorities of all work. Meet required deadlines and negotiate alternate timeframes when necessary. Scan, print or photocopy relevant documents as and when required by the relevant practice group support colleague or lawyer. Liaising with business services and other services to coordinate urgent mail and courier requests. Develop and maintain a robust file management system for all electronic and hard copy documents. Provide ad hoc support to the group or division such as dealing with incoming mail, answering the telephone, amending documents and any other administrative duties. Assist lawyers with petty cash requests, currency requests and expense claims in a timely manner. Assist with updating client information and relevant databases, following legal assistant or lawyer instructions in a timely manner (eg, InterAction). Prepare files for archiving and manage return and retrieval of files following firm guidelines. Assisting internal and external practice group events and functions. Adhere to firm, office and practice group policies and procedures, including those that are formal, informal, documented or verbal. Take all necessary steps to ensure you are aware of correct procedures. Maintaining inquisitive, collaborative and vigilant work habits, keeping abreast of changes and developing more efficient work processes. Demonstrate enthusiasm and proactivity in the workplace, including participating in and contributing to team meetings and activities, firm initiatives, learning and development sessions and other relevant activities. Take responsibility for your own learning, undertake recommended training, keep up to date and comply with firm policies, adopt new or improved firm and practice group recommended work practices, and share information with others about better ways of working. Comply with WHS obligations and responsibilities in accordance with the requirements for this role as set out on the intranet.

SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

Typing speed minimum of 60wpm with 98% accuracy. Knowledge of the Microsoft suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint). Good written and verbal English communication skills with a demonstrated ability to building effective and trusting relationships with people internally and external to the firm.

Team

Disputes

Working Pattern

Full time

Location

Singapore

Contract type

Permanent Contract

Diversity & Inclusion

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.

We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.

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