The vacancy
Moore Barlow is currently seeking a Legal Assistant to join our specialist Court of Protection Team in Guildford.
More About Us
Formed via a merger in 2020, Moore Barlow is a leading law firm aiming to be the best law firm to work for regionally. We are a career firm, providing access to high-quality work, long-term career opportunities and an environment built on the premise of being “human first” in everything we do. Put simply,
we care as much about your career as you do.
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 are now 450 people, including 280 lawyers and 58 Partners, with offices across the South-East and London.
More About The Court Of Protection Team
Our specialist Court of Protection Team are experts in providing tailored legal advice and support to individuals who have diminished mental capacity, often as a result of a traumatic brain injury.
Our team pride themselves on their empathetic client-centric approach, ensuring their client's best interests are protected while they provide guidance relating to deputyship applications, statutory wills, and property & affairs management.
Day To Day
As a Legal Assistant, you will play a crucial role by providing support to our specialist lawyers on a wide range of tasks, ensuring they are able to work at optimum efficiency and deliver the best service possible to our clients, many of whom are vulnerable individuals.
- You will support the Court of Protection Team with a broad range of administrative tasks, including the drafting and preparation of certain documents, filing, and general assistance to the team as necessary.
- You will take the lead on the administration and organising of the team’s cost claims every year; a very important task that outlines the team’s costs for submission to the senior courts costs office.
- You will assist with arranging appointments, as well as other internal and external meetings.
- You will be responsible for accurate photocopying and scanning, as well as the management of incoming and outgoing post.
- You will handle telephone enquiries, ensuring accurate details are taken and passed on to the relevant lawyer for follow up.
- You will help to manage the lawyers’ diaries by ensuring important information is added, including meetings and deadlines.
What We Look For
- We estimate that this position will suit an individual at the earlier stages of their career, such as a graduate or college leaver (law studies not a requirement).
- You will be calm under pressure, adopt a naturally proactive approach to your work, and have the ability to provide support to numerous colleagues across the team.
- You will be highly numerate, understand the importance of accuracy and comfortable working with budgets and accounts.
- You will be naturally caring, empathetic, and confident in engaging with very vulnerable individuals and their families who are often facing extremely difficult circumstances.
- You will be confident in building relationships within and outside of your immediate team, and working collaboratively to achieve the best possible outcomes for our clients.
- We are human-first in everything we do and seek people who share this trait. You will therefore have great communication skills, a passion for helping clients achieve their goals and the ability to think creatively.
If you have the required skills and experience and are keen to advance your career as part of our specialist Court of Protection Team, then we strongly encourage you to apply.
If you would like to learn more about this opportunity before applying, please contact Brandon Duchesne, Talent Acquisition Manager, for an informal conversation –
[email protected].
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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