- Planning for and delivering high quality, accurate work whilst managing deadlines and competing priorities
- Managing the billing process for your direct team including clients with specific billing requirements
- Assisting partners and lawyers with client and cost reporting requirements
- Managing Partners internal and external appointments with appropriate meeting lead times including travel and diary management
- Assisting with meeting preparation and the coordination of post meeting actions
- Experience in a legal secretary or legal administrative position is desirable
- Sound knowledge of Microsoft Office (including Teams)
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Strong organisational and time management skills with the ability to think ahead
- Ability to multi-task and prioritise competing demands from multiple stakeholders
- Ability to respond to changing circumstances and work to meet deadlines
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. We are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for our clients and we value empathy, simplicity and commerciality.
- We aim to support our people through their career and life milestones. We offer 26 weeks paid parental leave, which includes superannuation on both paid and unpaid parental leave up to 52 weeks. Our policy applies to parents regardless of gender, subject to six months of continuous employment at HSF.
- At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus, and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
- People join us to develop their careers and themselves. To support this we provide contemporary tailored learning programs, regular career conversations and a culture of feedback.
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Description
JOB DESCRIPTION About Herbert Smith Freehills
As one of the world's leading law firms, we advise many of the largest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. With over 5,000 people, including 3,100 lawyers and over 2,000 business services professionals, operating from our global network of offices across Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and North America, Herbert Smith Freehills is at the heart of the new global business landscape providing premium quality, full-service legal advice.
We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. Our environment is one in which high performance is expected, in return, we will provide you with rewards and opportunities tailored to your personal and professional goals.
The Opportunity
We are currently looking for expressions of interest from experienced Legal Assistants and Legal Secretaries who want to join our Melbourne team.
The team:
Our legal support team provides the practical support our lawyers need so they can deliver the best possible service to our clients.
The team provides high-quality support to partners and throughout our practice areas. Our legal support team plays a client-facing role as our assistants are typically in regular contact with our clients on behalf of lawyers.
Key responsibilities:
Our Legal Assistants are an integral part of our firm and assist in the smooth running of our practice groups and ensure our lawyers perform at the highest :
Skills & experience:
We are seeking expressions of interest from candidates who demonstrate:
What we offer:
Team
Working Pattern
Full timeLocation
MelbourneContract type
Diversity & Inclusion
At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
We understand that you have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to create a working environment based on mutual trust and respect, in which you can perform at your best whilst maintaining sustainable balance across your life.
