Legal Support Team Leader

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

11/9/2024

The vacancy

We’re looking for a Legal Support Team Lead and Partner’s Secretary to join our Commercial Dispute Resolution department at our Guildford office. Located near the Tunsgate shopping centre, our office is just a short walk from shops and restaurants, making it a convenient and accessible location.

Our Commercial Dispute team in which there are 12 lawyers and 3 secretaries at Moore Barlow specialises in resolving a diverse range of commercial conflicts. We provide expert advice on matters such as breach of contract, professional negligence, partnership disputes, and debt recovery. With our deep expertise, we ensure clients receive strategic, tailored advice to help them navigate the complex legal landscape of commercial disputes, aiming for timely and effective resolutions.

More About Us

Formed via a merger in 2020, Moore Barlow recently launched its refreshed brand and firmly positioned itself as a leading regional law firm. We are featured in The Times’ Best Law Firms 2024 list, and consistently achieve recognition for the quality of our services in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

We strive to develop long-term working relationships with our clients by ensuring that we deliver our services with empathy, expertise, and a “Human-First” approach. We are now 450 people, including 272 lawyers and 72 Partners, with offices across the South-East and London.

Day To Day

Our Firm is built on the value of “Human First”, and because of that, we are looking to recruit those with a passion for delivering the best possible outcomes for their clients, and the drive to continuously learn and improve. You will ideally:

• Provide support for the Dispute Resolution Partner
• Administer files, including opening, closing, storing, and retrieving per firm procedures.
• Accurately record information in the practice management system as provided by fee earners.
• Draft letters, documents, and forms, using dictation.
• Manage daily diaries for themselves and colleagues, tracking key dates and follow-ups.
• Oversee part of the Department’s secretarial support team of 5, ensuring efficient, high-quality support for Solicitors and the broader team.
• Coordinate work across the secretarial team, managing resources to cover absences, high workloads, and future needs.
  
  

What We Are Looking For

We are a friendly, and supportive team, and we value those same qualities in our colleagues. You might be an experienced Legal Secretary ready to take the next step in your career, ideally with a background in Dispute Resolution or Civil Litigation, along with some management experience.

If you have this experience and are keen to develop your career in CDR, then we’d strongly encourage you to apply.

Who We Are

We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.

We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.

We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.

With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.

What We Can Offer

Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.

As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.

In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.

We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.

If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.

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