Paralegal/Legal Assistant – Reading – Up to £27k DOE

Our client a well-established regional UK law firm with an impressive international reach Located close to Reading station are looking for a Paralegal/Legal Assistant to join their team.

The ideal candidate for this role will already have some Paralegal experience within a Commercial environment. You will be enthusiastic and will have a good degree of resilience and composure to provide a high- quality and professional service to our fee earners of the Wills, Trust & Probate Team, and our clients.

You will be part of a small, friendly team and valued for your individual contribution with support to develop your skills and experience by offering training to the right person.

As Paralegal/Legal Assistant

you will be responsible for:

• Liaising with clients and third parties on behalf of and at the direction of senior fee earners
• The administration of estates:

• deal with initial correspondence and information gathering.
• input data on the Intelliworks casework system.
• prepare Probate papers.
• realise assets and pay liabilities.
• distribute estates

Drafting Wills and Lasting Powers of Attorney under the supervision of senior fee earners

• Producing accurate documentation, reports and correspondence following standard office practices and precedents, to timescales required to meet clients service levels with the agreement of the fee earner
• Ensuring that files are maintained in a good order and that clients are kept informed at frequent intervals (as required by supervising partner) of progress on matters, including being supplied with periodic case updated
• Assisting with research
• Assisting with the billing process including raising billing guides for fee earners and forwarding invoices to clients
• Dealing with BACs forms for fee earners

You will have the following skills and experience:

• Ability to work unsupervised within scope of instructions/protocols from senior fee earners
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Ability to work effectively in a team and independently
• Excellent IT skills plus good knowledge of Microsoft Office (including Excel spreadsheets)