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Legal PA

Location: 

Liverpool, GB

Department or practice area:  Document Specialist Team

The opportunity for you

 

We’re looking for a Legal PA to support a busy, high‑performing team across client and matter administration, as well as broader team activities, including general event support where needed. You’ll bring strong organisational skills, clear communication, and a proactive, detail‑focused approach that keeps everything running smoothly. If you’re reliable, collaborative, and thrive in a fast‑paced professional environment, this role places you at the heart of day‑to‑day operations that make a real impact.

 

Key responsibilities

 

  • Maintain accurate client and matter data, manage matter openings, draft engagement documents, and assist with due diligence.
  • Build and maintain strong client communication and support relationships effectively.
  • Draft, amend, and proofread legal documents; prepare bundles and e‑Bibles; support trial preparation.
  • Manage inboxes by e‑filing, prioritising urgent emails, and drafting basic responses.
  • Organise client meetings, lunches, events, and coordinate detailed travel itineraries with contingencies.
  • Maintain client information, support pitch research, manage marketing and event lists, update fee‑earner profiles, and take BD meeting minutes.
  • Complete expenses accurately, manage pre‑bills and final bills, check billing narratives, process disbursements, and prepare internal money transfers.
  • Ensure client matter ledgers are fully cleared at closure.
  • Provide general administrative assistance to fee earners as needed.

 

Knowledge, skills and experience

 

  • Strong organisational skills with attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
  • Ability to work independently while managing multiple tasks effectively under pressure.
  • Reliable with a strong sense of responsibility towards assigned tasks.
  • Proactive approach towards identifying issues/problems before they arise.

 

Benefits

 

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer; 

 

  • Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week). 
  • Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata). 
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child). 

 

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available. 

 

Our culture

 

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation.  We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team.  We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

 

The way we work

 

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.  

 

Taylor Wessing

 

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition. 

 

With 1250+ lawyers, 350+ partners, 26 offices and 16 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Document Specialist Team  team, with the addition of a Legal PA.

 

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