Legal Pa

**Job Title**: Legal PA

**Department**: CAD

**Location**: Dubai

**Type of Contract / Hours of work**: 5 days per week/ 40 Hours

**Purpose of the role**:
Services to be delivered to the business in a manner which is consistent with the increasingly competitive environment in which the Firm operates.

This role is intended to embrace a team-working approach, collaborating with lawyers and other members of Business Operations to fulfil the needs of the business. In addition to being assigned to a number of specific lawyers, it is expected that a Legal PA will work with every member of the team to ensure that overall needs are met.

Support may need to be provided to staff from more than one business unit and numbers and content of the group may change from time to time to reflect the current structure of the Firm.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Client Service**

**Your responsibility to deliver excellent service to our clients**
- Building and maintaining effective relationships with both internal and external clients and their teams and developing knowledge of their business
- Actively contributing to client service initiatives in the group, including attending client events and seminars where required
- Developing and maintaining core sector understanding to support delivery of optimum client service

**Planning & Organisation**

**How you use your organisational skills to ensure the lawyers you work with have the information they need on a daily basis**
- Liaising regularly (at least on a weekly basis and daily where appropriate) with lawyers to identify work commitments and prioritising your workload accordingly
- Proactively identify areas of responsibility and tasks you can take ownership of
- Diary management for lawyers including arranging meetings and appointments, both internally and externally, ensuring the Outlook diary is up to date and holds all the necessary information in relation to the appointment including taking responsibility for booking travel, meeting rooms and arranging for necessary equipment and refreshments
- Proactive advance monitoring of lawyers' diaries, reminding them of diary commitments and taking responsibility for the provision of all supporting paperwork and necessary information for each meeting
- Liaising with the travel company to make travel and accommodation arrangements keeping lawyers advised of any changes in scheduling and proactively ensuring they have an accurate and up to date itinerary and all the relevant travel details are in the Outlook diary
- Liaising with Business Operations to resolve problems on lawyers' behalf and taking ownership of the issue, following up where appropriate
- Delegation of appropriate work types/requests to all available support services in order to promote optimum efficiency

**Managing Communications**

**How you assist lawyers in their communications with colleagues and clients**
- Taking ownership of answering lawyers' telephone calls when they are unavailable, taking accurate messages and passing them on promptly, trying to assist and answer any non-legal queries if possible and ensuring the caller receives a satisfactory response
- Preparing presentation slides and materials for internal/external meetings and events
- Drafting short letters, memos or notes (non-legal content) in a literate and professional manner

**Document & File Management**

**How you ensure that the documentation we produce is of the highest quality and our files are accurate and up to date**
- Proactively ensuring that Document Services is utilised effectively
- Managing production of documents (produced in-house and externally), co-ordinating changes made including taking responsibility for the consistency of those documents (e.g. formatting, numbering, CompareDocs etc).
- Opening client files, including completing conflict searches and money laundering checks in conjunction with lawyers, preparation of client engagement letters, collating all the relevant information required and maintaining client files on a day to day basis, including delegation of filing where required
- Ensuring documents are filed on iManage with correct file and matter details so that they can be located easily
- Undertaking regular reviews of files and papers for lawyers, checking account balances and liaising with lawyers to ensure that all files which are not current are archived and deeds are put in storage

**Business Development/Relationship Management**

**How you can contribute to developing the Firm's business and maintaining excellent relationships with our clients and potential clients**
- Inputting uniform practice group credentials into the Credentials Database in a timely manner
- Organising events in conjunction with Business Development including logging responses into InterAction and attending events to meet and greet clients where necessary
- Undertaking research on clients, potential clients and new business initiatives or opportunities, including putting toget