The vacancy
Moore Barlow is currently seeking a Legal Assistant to join our Medical Negligence Team based in Southampton. Our modern offices are open plan and boast a subsidised-on site restaurant/coffee shop - this is a great space to meet colleagues for lunch or meet more informally with colleagues and Clients alike.
More about us: Formed via a merger in 2020, Moore Barlow recently launched its refreshed brand and firmly positioned itself as a leading regional law firm. We are featured in The Times’ Best Law Firms 2024 list and consistently achieve recognition for the quality of our services in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.
We strive to develop long-term working relationships with our clients by ensuring that we deliver our services with empathy, expertise, and a “Human-First” approach. We are now 450 people, including 272 lawyers and 60 Partners, with offices across the South-East and London.
Day–to–day
Our Legal Assistants play a crucial role in helping our lawyers achieve the best possible outcomes for their clients. The role involves a mix of administrative and 'secretarial duties' and provides the critical support to our teams in order to deliver great Client outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to work as part of a team with an outstanding reputation in the serious injury sector.
Duties
Working alongside a very experienced and supportive Legal support team, you will provide direct support to lawyers across the team, handling a mixture of duties, including:
- Initial advice and guidance to new clients by phone or email.
- Acting as a point of contact and team liaison throughout the course of a matter, ensuring Clients receive the excellent care that our team is known for.
- File opening and closure (and associated due diligence such as AML compliance)
- Supporting the credit control process by creating bills and paying invoices.
- Administrative tasks such as:
- Creating digital and off-line bundles,
- Typing from dictation
- Collating medical records.
About You
First and foremost, we are a welcoming team who look for the same. Therefore, you will ideally be an individual who is open, flexible, and excited about learning new things.
Perhaps you are a law graduate looking to kick-start your career with your first legal support role, or an experienced administrator who is seeking a brand-new challenge. Either way, you should have a passion for excellent client-service and naturally take an organised and efficient approach to your work.
Whilst some prior legal or admin experience would be great, we are keen to hear from those who have related work or study experience and can demonstrate an interest in this line of work.
If you have this experience and are keen to develop your career, then we would strongly encourage you to apply.
Who We Are
We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.
What We Can Offer
Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.
As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.
In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.
We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.
If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.
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