Onsite Legal Assistant

Posted 3 days ago

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About the role

  • Legal Assistant providing administrative support to Corporate and Banking teams at Dentons in Adelaide. Engaging in a variety of tasks to support Partners, lawyers, and clients effectively.

Responsibilities

  • Providing dedicated administrative assistance to Partners, senior lawyers and their broader teams
  • Drafting, preparing and editing legal documents, presentations and general correspondence
  • Conducting InfoTrack searches and managing PPS registrations
  • Managing calendars, diaries and contacts, including scheduling meetings and coordinating appointments
  • Proactively overseeing financial and matter-related requirements, including opening new matters, conflict checks, trust requirements, accounts payable, audit letters and high-volume billing
  • Supporting day-to-day operations such as answering calls, processing mail, preparing routine correspondence, liaising with clients and managing ad hoc printing and document tasks
  • Acting as a professional and approachable point of contact for clients, external parties, national colleagues and internal teams, using strong written and verbal communication skills at all times.

Requirements

  • Previous experience in legal administration, or a strong desire to build a long-term career in legal support
  • A positive, collaborative attitude and a genuine commitment to supporting your team
  • Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to juggle priorities in a deadline-driven environment
  • A high level of discretion and care when working with confidential and sensitive information
  • Experience using Elite or similar financial systems for expenses, matters, timesheets, billing and reporting
  • Confidence using Outlook to manage emails, calendars and contacts
  • Strong working knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint to produce high-quality documents.

Benefits

  • Equitable salary packaging, incentive pay and rewards
  • Salary continuous insurance (for permanent employees or employees on a 6 month or more maximum term contract basis)
  • Salary sacrificing and novated leases
  • 5 days Bonus Leave per year after 12 months of service
  • Additional leave options
  • Equal family leave for all genders (including kinship groups)
  • Floating public holidays for days of cultural significance
  • Exclusive retailer discounts
  • Offices designed for collaboration on Gadigal, Naarm, Yuggera, Kaurna and Whadjuk land
  • Learning & Development opportunities
  • Generous health and wellbeing programs
  • Agile and flexible working for all
  • Social and diversity networks providing year-round events
  • Opportunities to undertake pro-bono legal work

Job title

Legal Assistant

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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