AO5 Senior Legal Support Officer
Job description
About the Role
The Legal Support Officer provides high-level administrative and operational support to a legal team responsible for managing complex, high-profile, and sensitive legal matters. This role ensures efficient management of legal workflows, compliance with record-keeping requirements, and smooth day-to-day operations.
Key Responsibilities
Please note: only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The Legal Support Officer provides high-level administrative and operational support to a legal team responsible for managing complex, high-profile, and sensitive legal matters. This role ensures efficient management of legal workflows, compliance with record-keeping requirements, and smooth day-to-day operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide timely and accurate administrative and business support across legal and office functions.
- Assist with the coordination and management of legal matters, internal procedures, and precedents databases.
- Prepare reports, including performance, financial, and trend analyses.
- Support financial processes, including budgets, invoices, purchase orders, and billing.
- Coordinate meetings, prepare minutes, manage actions, and facilitate internal communications.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to support case preparation.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives to enhance operational efficiency.
- Experience in a Senior Legal Support, Legal Secretary or Paralegal role is required.
- Proven experience in legal administration, document management, and drafting correspondence.
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, maintain confidentiality, and exercise sound judgement.
- Strong administrative and organisational skills with high attention to detail.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively within a team and provide solutions-oriented support.
- Occasional work outside standard hours may be required.
- No formal qualifications are mandatory, though experience in legal administration is required.
Please note: only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.