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Join our dynamic team as a Support Assistant, you'll play a pivotal role in providing administrative and solicitor support.
This position requires a blend of technical proficiency, exceptional organisational skills, and effective communication abilities.
You'll be integral to ensuring the smooth operation of our branch and supporting the firm's overarching goals.
Key responsibilities
- Self-sufficient and thrive in a busy working environment.
- The ability to work proactively and accurately to meet deadlines.
- Technical and administrative experience gained within a legal environment.
- Ability to produce letters, as well as completion of legal forms and documents for clients, the court and third parties. (This role will involve extracting information required from the case files, so attention to detail is paramount).
- Excellent communication and client care skills with an ability to empathise with vulnerable clients is essential.
- Fully competent skills in Microsoft Office is required however full training will be provided on the firm’s own internal systems and processes.
- Experience gained within a legal environment will be a distinct advantage.
About you
- This is an excellent opportunity for an organised and highly motivated individual who thrives on providing an excellent service.
- The role will involve providing full administrative support in a variety of tasks.
- In return, you will have the opportunity to work alongside lawyers and other support colleagues on a diverse portfolio and highly prestigious cases, making a vital contribution to the clients we represent.
Benefits
- Contributory pension scheme
- 5 days additional leave over Christmas (Xmas shut down)
- Permanent health insurance
- Life assurance
- 23 days annual leave (in addition to bank holidays)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Cycle to work scheme
- Organised sports and social club
- Annual travel and parking loans
- Financial assistance for professional development
About Thompsons Solicitors
For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised. Thompsons ran:
- the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
- the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
- the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
- the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
- hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).
Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 23 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.
Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change.
We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.
