Job Description

Sewell Wallis is working with a globally present law firm that operates in 40+ countries and has 5,000 lawyers working for it.
Due to expansion, the Sheffield office is looking for a Legal Administrator to work part-time for 3 days per week.
The right candidate will ideally have a year or so of experience in administration within a legal setting. This role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is looking.
What will you be doing?

• Preparing Court/Counsel's bundles
• Creation of secure links
• Preparing legal documentation and court forms
• Document comparisons
• Liaising with clients and courts
• Opening new matters
• Arranging conference calls
• Saving documents electronically
• Working to strict deadlines
• Processing fee-earner expenses
• Arranging meetings
• Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
• Becoming adept at proof-reading and carrying out quality checks on all work produced
• Establishing positive and effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels
• Provide cross Practice-Group support where necessary

What skills are we looking for?
To be successful for this Legal Administrator role, you must have:

• Strong attention to detail
• Good written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate at all levels, confident, professional telephone manner
• Solid understanding of basic Maths & Microsoft Excel - the ability to manipulate monetary amounts
• Proven ability to work to tight deadlines (hours not days) and prioritise workload to ensure SLAs for multiple workstreams are consistently met
• Confident to make own decisions and take responsibility for them

What's on offer?

• Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
• Flexible, hybrid working policy
• Generous bonus scheme
• Up to 25 days holiday pro-rata (rising to 28 days with service)
• Holiday exchange scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Enhanced parental leave

Apply below or contact Lewis for more information.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
Job ref: LW/6255Post Date: 25.09.25
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