Practice Executive / Legal Secretary (Corporate)
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Occupation TypeLegal secretaries
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Description
Description
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?
The Practice Executive is a key role in the Legal Operations Support team, based in London.
Reporting into one of our Assistant Operations Managers, the purpose of the role to to provide high level, proactive business support to a Global Practice Head and a Business Services Senior Manager ensuring the effective completion of tasks using appropriate resources such as the Local Hub and Global Shared Services.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
At Ashurst Perkins Coie, we're helping shape the future economy. With a global team of more than 3,500 legal professionals across 52 offices, we partner with leading organisations to solve complex challenges across a diverse range of industries, with a distinct strength in technology, energy & infrastructure, and financial services. Our people work on market-leading matters that drive innovation, growth, and transformation around the world.For Ashurst Perkins Coie, innovation is our tradition.
What makes Ashurst Perkins Coie a great place to work?
- Flexible work options - part-time, working from home and additional leave
- Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, and discounted corporate health plans
- Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, and award-winning Learning & Development programs
The Practice Executive is a key role in the Legal Operations Support team, based in London.
Reporting into one of our Assistant Operations Managers, the purpose of the role to to provide high level, proactive business support to a Global Practice Head and a Business Services Senior Manager ensuring the effective completion of tasks using appropriate resources such as the Local Hub and Global Shared Services.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Complex diary management and gatekeeping, including coordinating complex overseas travel and resource requirements
- Coordinating, or delegating as appropriate, meeting requirements (room bookings, attendee invitations, resources, catering), including scheduling arrangements across time zones.
- Manage, track and coordinate the review of WIP and matter billings with the relevant associate/partner
- Work with Financial Management to prepare timely and accurate client invoices.
- Monitoring and managing inboxes, using initiative to re-route or prioritise, and action or draft response for review in order to reduce volume
More information can be found in the job description attached to the role on our careers site Careers | Ashurst Perkins Coie
About you:
The successful candidate will have:
- Previous experience as an Executive in a law firm or other professional services environment
- A client focussed approach with well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide professional and appropriate first drafts of short correspondence, documents and slide packs
- Excellent organisation skills, with the ability to cope with a wide range of demands and changing priorities
- Experiencing working well within teams, and able to re-prioritise when needed to meet urgent deadlines or changed priorities
- Strong technical skills in MS Word, Outlook, PowerPoint and Excel