Senior PA (Commercial Disputes)

CompanyOsborne Clarke

LocationBristol, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/23/2026

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Personal assistants and other secretaries

Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled

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Description

Role profile

We are seeking a Senior PA to join our Commercial Disputes service line. This is a permanent position based in our Bristol office, offering hybrid working arrangements.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior PA who will provide high-level, professional and proactive PA support to the Service Line Leader (SLL) and a team of fee earners. This is a busy and varied role which requires an organised and proactive individual who enjoys working with different people in a fast-paced environment.

The Commercial Disputes service line sits within our Disputes and Risk Practice Group and provides expert legal advice across a broad range of commercial litigation matters. The service line is led by a Service Line Leader (SLL) who is responsible for the strategic direction, business development and day-to-day management of the team.

Key Responsibilities

A core element of this role is providing dedicated support to the SLL. You will be expected to act as a trusted partner to the SLL, playing a critical role in the smooth running of the Commercial Disputes service line.

Key Support Duties Include

Assist the SLL with tracking and reporting on key team deliverables, deadlines and actions.
Assist the SLL with coordination of team meetings, agendas, collating materials, and follow-ups.
Maintain the service line’s annual management calendar and support all people-related cycles.
Identify opportunities, actively contribute and be involved with ad-hoc projects as given by the SLL and Disputes & Risk Operations team.
Work closely with the Disputes & Risk practice management team to improve team efficiencies, communications, management of work-in-progress and roll-out of IT applications and improved working practices.

Wider PA Responsibilities Include

Provide professional, effective and proactive PA support to a number of Partners and fee earners within the Commercial Disputes service line.
Have regular one-to-one meetings with fee earners to understand their proactive work needs for the week, record and follow up on actions including diary management, travel, meeting booking, expenses and billing.
Take ownership for diary management (complex in the case of Partners) including anticipating and avoiding potential diary clashes, organising meetings and travel using initiative in advance of the planning and scheduling stage, and acting as gatekeeper for meeting invites and requests from across the business.

Proactively take responsibility for travel arrangements (including international travel), conference and meeting bookings, and ensure any travel itineraries are prepared in advance together with any agendas required for meetings.

Monitor and assist with management of mailboxes including acting as gatekeeper to field messages and calls in a timely and professional manner.

Deal with enquiries from clients, colleagues and third parties.

Assist with the file opening and client due diligence process where necessary; set up new matters and draft engagement letters.

Play an active role in managing the billing process by working closely with the finance team including accessing relevant reports, transferring time, ensuring correct rates, initial mark-up on billing guides and drafting emails for invoices to be sent to clients.

Play a key role in managing financial administration for fee earners including monthly cost updates, updating client documents and requesting purchase order numbers.

Collate and process expenses including proactive management in a timely manner.

Document comparisons and electronic filing.

Draft short correspondence and communications; demonstrate excellent IT skills with the ability to amend and format large and complex documents.

Develop and maintain positive relationships with the rest of the Commercial Disputes PA team and other client and internal contacts.

Work with the team to continuously develop effective ways of working within the team.

Provide ad-hoc support for the PA team (covering for other PA absences).

Assist with ad-hoc IT queries and liaising with the IT team to resolve these queries, particularly for new joiners.

Key Skills

We are looking for an experienced PA with a proactive work ethic. The position requires someone with drive and ambition who is able to use their own initiative, has first-class organisational skills and is an integral team player. Flexibility and proactivity are essential personal attributes.

You Will Also Be Able To Demonstrate

The ability to handle complex diary management and meeting arrangements.
A team player with excellent relationship-building skills; great at maintaining good working relationships with fee earners and PAs in the team.
The ability to prioritise work effectively, working under pressure and to tight deadlines.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Capable of taking initiative and developing solutions.

The ability to work with confidentiality, discretion and diplomacy.

Excellent attention to detail.

Excellent IT skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

The ability to prepare financial reports for clients.

Salary And Benefits

We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Our recruitment process

Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.

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