Team Assistant

Are you an experienced administrator seeking a new challenge, or an assistant looking for your next move? Look no further! We're recruiting a Legal Team Assistant to join our Bristol office. This role offers top-class training, a tailored career development programme, and a competitive salary.

As a Legal Team Assistant at Burges Salmon, you'll play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of your department. You'll work closely with our lawyers, providing support across a wide range of tasks, including:

• Full production of documents (incorporating changes made by lawyers)
• Diary management
• Reporting
• Client onboarding
• Producing invoices and managing files
• Collating expenses
• Coordinating travel arrangements
  
  

We offer every new starter a thorough induction and excellent training on our in house legal systems (including iManage and Aderant). Knowledge of these specific systems is not essential but we do require a confident working knowledge of Microsoft Office.

What do we offer you?

• The opportunity to work with some of the UK's leading lawyers on interesting work.

A collaborative and friendly environment. We respect and recognise every single one of our people for what they do.

Support on your professional and personal development.

A brilliant rewards package including a firm-wide bonus scheme, discounted local gym membership, free health check with BUPA and contribution to annual eye tests and cost of glasses.

What we're looking for:

• Strong background in administration, ideally within professional services.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• Enthusiasm and willingness to learn
• Good attention to detail
• A great team player
  
  

About Burges Salmon

Our six core values – Ambition, Collaboration, Commitment, Fairness, Quality and Respect - are at the heart of everything we do and help to shape our unique culture. As well as high quality work and exciting development opportunities, we offer our people a professional, friendly and sociable working environment with a real sense of community.

A full overview of all the benefits of working at Burges Salmon can be found on the 'working at Burges Salmon' section of our careers page.

We are delighted to have been named RollOnFriday's 'Best Law Firm to Work At' 2025,

for the fourth year in a row, and also named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2023. Our commitment to excellence has recently been recognised by the IIP, which awarded us Platinum certification for investment in people.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident Leader we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process and offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job.

For any questions regarding the role, or to discuss any reasonable adjustments, please contact Katarina Athanasakos at [email protected]

To submit an application for this vacancy please click on the 'Apply Now' button.

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