Legal Document Specialist - (12 month fixed term contract)
Are you keen to find an exciting new role where you will be part of a dynamic, unique, forward-thinking team? If so, come and join us on the journey.
Why Michelmores? Michelmores is the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We help enterprises and individuals navigate change to find a positive future.
We are a flexible, friendly and inclusive organisation with as clear a focus on fresh thinking as we have on growth and success. We value and nurture our people’s potential and inspiration and give them a creative, open and collaborative environment in which to develop a career and succeed.
As our clients’ needs change and evolve, so do we. Our business services teams are continuously looking for ways to innovate and attract and retain the best clients and the brightest people. Central to our culture is our nurturing, friendly and flexible environment which genuinely allows our people to grow and flourish, both professionally and personally.We really care about what we stand for and want to move forward together.
What sort of work? Right now, we have an exciting opportunity for a Legal Document Specialist to join our highly experienced Legal Document Team on a 12-month fixed term contract. Working on a hybrid basis, your 'base' office could be either Exeter, Bristol or Cheltenham.
In this role, you will support the team in providing internal clients with a seamless, professional, accurate, efficient and timely legal document service and assist on a project to update our precedents. This will include:
- Converting precedents into our house style.
- Transcribing digital dictations and producing and amending documents, correspondence, reports, legal form and attachments from a variety of sources, in house style (unless a third-party document) and in line with the firm's specific systems and procedures.
- Proof-reading and checking all documents to ensure they are correct, in line with house style and, where applicable, attachments have been included or highlighted to the relevant Legal Support Assistant.
- Producing and amending PowerPoint presentations, organisational charts, mail merges, Excel spreadsheets and graphs.
- Acting as a brand champion for professional presentation of all documents produced.
Why this team? Covering legal document production, facilities, reception, catering, post, archiving and office support, our Operational Services team keeps our offices running. The team plays a key role in delivering a first-class service to our clients when they visit our offices, maintains our shared working spaces and supports the lawyers in completing their day-to-day activities.
How do we work? We take a flexible, agile approach to working patterns. As a team we agree together on the best working arrangements that will enable each of us to provide exceptional client service, to collaborate and connect with colleagues, and to achieve the right home/work balance.
This is a hybrid role with regular attendance at a base office (either Bristol, Cheltenham or Exeter). During the initial 4-6 week training we would expect the role to be office based for the majority of the working week after that time moving to a more hybrid model.This team also have one anchor day per month in our Exeter office, so the expectation would be to travel to Exeter once a month if that was not your base office.
We pride ourselves on our high-performance culture whilst offering a good work/life balance.
As a Firm we are committed to supporting our people across all levels to achieve the balance they need. We are open to talk flexible working and to empower any candidate to put forward a flexible working pattern to meet their needs.
Who are we looking for? We are looking for somebody who will understand our values and thrive in our culture.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Previous experience in legal document production.
- Accurate typing skills (audio and copy typing) of at least 60 words per minute.
- Good / advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and any other core systems implemented by the Firm.
- Ability to strip document formatting and reformat in house style and to repair problem documents either on own or with support from IT.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; effective communicator at all levels (written and verbal):
Other skills required include:
- Excellent telephone manner.
- Client focussed approach to work and ability to work under own initiative.
- Good organisational skills with a flexible and methodical approach towards workloads and changing priorities.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- A commercial, pro-active 'can do' and professional approach to work.
- Conscientious, approachable and enthusiastic.
- Able to quickly build confidence, respect and trust with others.
- Must interact well with others in a sensitive and effective way - a team player.
- Understand the importance of confidentiality and use of discretion.
This is a great opportunity to join a Firm which believes potential, inspiration, and teamwork should be valued and nurtured.
We work hard to create and sustain an open and collaborative environment. We embrace change and constantly evolve to meet our people’s diverse needs, in the same way that we help our clients to navigate and stay ahead of developments, to move forward together.
Next Steps
To apply please click below or if you would like to talk to someone about the role, please call Sarah McLean, Recruitment Specialist, on 07754 555106.
Michelmores LLP is an Equal Opportunities Employer
We do not discriminate on grounds of race, gender, marital status, age, religion, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation in the selection, recruitment and treatment of our staff.
View our Inclusion and Belonging pages for more information.- No agencies please – any agency assistance will be via invitation only. Please note any speculative candidates submitted via agencies without invitation will not be considered as represented by that agent.