Recruiting for a Legal PA to work for an incredibly friendly, forward thinking law firm. Supporting a Partner dealing with Sports Finance - £44,000 !

Diary Management and Travel

Excellent levels of competence and judgement in managing diaries and travel, to include:

• An in-depth understanding of the Fee Earners preferences in terms of diary and travel management. * Providing proactive reminders of meetings and events.
• Ensuring the stakeholder has all necessary paperwork and documentation for meetings in good time.
• Initiating and managing regular catch ups to monitor diary activity, with emphasis on proactively planning and preparing for any upcoming events, such as key client meetings, client training/seminars etc.
• Maintain an awareness of the Fee Earners whereabouts to provide proactive alerts if there are delays in their schedule.
• Maximise the effectiveness of diary management by using the tools available in Outlook, delegating diary management tasks and minor travel requests as appropriate. Marketing and Business Development
• Develops and maintains a good knowledge of the Fee Earners key clients, clients and target sectors.
• Assisting the stakeholder with any practice or sector administration where they hold a marketing management responsibility, to include assisting in the organisation of group calls and retreats. Taking an active role in meetings to include creating agendas, minute-taking and circulating to the sector group with relevant action points.
• Supporting the MBD team with directory submissions.
• Partnering with the stakeholder to create and maintain a digital marketing presence.
• Responsible for ensuring Fee Earners biographies are maintained and current.
• Aiding the stakeholder in producing newsletters and articles which may be published to the website or mailed to clients.
• Involvement in pitches, to include expert use of the pitching tools/templates, including:
• Knowledge of the various client functional tools we offer.
• Drafting and formatting pitches, team sheets and other marketing materials.
• Attending pitch planning meetings, where possible to offer input relevant to matter admin support we propose to provide to the client.
• Proactively ensuring the Fee Earners credentials are kept up to date.
• Assisting with cataloguing of pitches, precedents, and marketing materials for future use.
• Regularly liaising with sector Business Development contacts to share information and updates on sector and stakeholder activity and maintaining who's who lists for the sector.

This role would suit a Legal PA who is robust, flexible and adaptable to support the Finance team dealing with Aviation, Financial Services, General Banking, Sports Finance and Restructuring & Insolvency. The allocation will be a mix of Partners, Legal Directors, of Counsel and Senior Associates.