Legal Assistant - General Counsel

FIRM0525 – Legal Assistant – General Counsel
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Posted: 23/05/2025 16:26 Salary: Competitive Location: Leeds/Newcastle Level: Paralegal Deadline: 05/06/2025 23:59 Hours: 35 Benefits: Competitive Job Type: Permanent Full Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Assistant to join our Leeds or Newcastle office, where you\’ll be an important part of our Firm\’s General Counsel team.

This is a unique opportunity to develop and grow your knowledge, within a busy in-house team (so no time recording required!) consisting of three lawyers who advise on a wide range of legal and regulatory topics including (but not limited to) SRA compliance, claims, complaints, insurance, conduct, financial crime, conflicts, confidentiality and data, and commercial agreements. The team is also regularly involved in a diverse range of projects and initiatives within the firm. No two days are the same in this ever-evolving area of work.

What will I be doing

• Supporting senior lawyers with complaints– including initial review of files

• Assisting with data subject access requests

• Assisting the team in dealing with potential professional indemnity scenarios, helping to sort files for release/disclosure requests.

• Assisting the team with co-ordination of training, production of training materials and potentially assisting with delivery of training.

• Horizon scanning – assisting the team (and wider firm) with awareness of regulatory developments and thematic reviews.

• Supporting internal projects including carrying out legal research.

• Supporting the team to assess potential conflicts of interest.

You\’ll have

• Experience working within a contentious legal environment (ideal but not essential).

• Ideally have a Law degree or equivalent, but this is not essential.

• Excellent attention to detail and an awareness of SRA standards and regulations.

• A high level of discretion, integrity, and a proactive attitude towards learning and adapting in demanding situations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• A proven ability to build relationships at all levels and to work effectively under pressure to meet deadlines.

• The ability to balance a pragmatic and commercial approach with working in a highly regulated sector

About us

We\’re proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we\’re one of the UK\’s Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We\’re passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.

• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.

• An Employee Assistance Programme

• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week working from one of our offices.

• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please quoting vacancy reference FIRM0525.

If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.

Agencies – please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.

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