Experienced Personal Assistant - Financial Litigation

We are recruiting for an experienced Personal Assistant to join our market-leading Financial Litigation team. You will have responsibility for the team's administrative requirements and to ensure that work is carried out efficiently and within required timescales. 

This vacancy is location agnostic, and since we are fully flexible in our working patterns, we will work with you to tailor an approach that works both for you and for us. You will always have an office that will act as your base, from which you can interact with teams face to face and access any direct support from our HR and IT teams.

Our FSDI team is one of the UK's largest teams in the field of financial services litigation and investigations, comprising over 200 people across our offices in Bristol, Manchester, London, Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow. We are rated by Chambers 2023 as being in the top tier of firms outside of London advising in this area. The range and quality of the work we do is exceptional. 

Your Role

As a Personal Assistant you will be responsible for the following; 

• Filing at regular interval
• To support the fee earners with administrative tasks and action work as delegated by team leads
• To complete all allocated tasks within the required timeframe and to the required level of accuracy
• Provide telephone support and deal with client queries in fee earners absence
• Opening new instructions accurately and within service standards
• File closing
• Diary management for all fee earners; arranging internal and external appointments and, making arrangements for meetings; booking meetings rooms or external venues as required
• Proof reading, amending and house styling legal reports and non TLT documents.

Your Skills and Experience

• Previous experienced of working as a team PA or similar team support role is essential
• Effective record keeping
• Effective telephone communication skills
• Good attention to detail
• Extensive experience in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel are required.
• Experience in case management systems
• Exceptional prioritising/organisational skills.
• Strong ability to self-manage a large workload in a busy team.
• Confident in delegation of work when necessary. 

Your Team

TLT has one of the largest dedicated Financial Services Disputes practices in the UK, with partner led teams in all jurisdictions. We act for a range of financial institutions including large UK banks, international banks, challenger banks and fintechs, giving commercial and practical advice to resolve disputes. 

We advise across the whole spectrum of contentious issues associated with commercial, business and consumer finance, including dispute resolution, pre-litigation management and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2021 we were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year, recognising our incredible success story.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute. 

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance. 

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate. 

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on HR-Recruitment@TLTsolicitors.com