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Legal Support Apprentice

Location: 

London, GB

Department or practice area:  Legal Support

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 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Legal Support  team, with the addition of a Legal Support Apprentice.

 

The opportunity for you

 

This role provides essential support across various functions within the Legal Support team, including the Mail Room, Support Assistants and Records Management. The successful candidate will demonstrate effective communication skills, strong willingness to learn, and a positive approach.

This role will be 4 days in the office and 1 day study leave for your apprenticeship. The apprenticeship will be for a level 3 Business Administration.

Key responsibilities

 

Mail Room:

  • Post: Receiving and distributing all incoming post.
  • Couriers: Sending and receiving couriers – local, national and international.
  • Stationery: Maintaining and distributing stock of stationery supplies.

 

Legal Support:

  • Document Handling: Scan and date documents.
  • Post Management: Handle hard copy filing instructions.
  • Records Management: Manage collection, archiving, recall, Deeds assistance, scanning, labelling, barcoding, and disposal of records.
  • PDF Amendments: Perform basic PDF amendments including bookmarking, combining, splitting, compressing, paginating, zipping and OCR functions.
  • E-filing: Maintain electronic filing systems.
  • Co Sec Registered Post: Scan and send registered post to clients in line with SLA.
  • Data Room Monitoring: Monitor data rooms for document management.
  • Document Upload/Download: Upload and download documents as required.

 

Records Management:

  • Archive storage: Manage collection, archiving, recall, Deeds assistance, scanning, labelling, and barcoding.
  • Records Management: Assist with confidential destruction in line with the firm's retention schedules.

 

Knowledge, skills and experience

 

  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications (Word/PowerPoint/Excel) is beneficial.
  • Strong organisational skills with attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
  • Ability to work independently while managing time effectively under pressure.
  • Reliable with a strong sense of responsibility towards assigned tasks.
  • Proactive approach towards identifying issues/problems before they arise.

 

By adhering to these principles, you will contribute significantly towards achieving team objectives while maintaining high standards of service delivery.

 

Benefits

 

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer; 

  • 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.  

 

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