Apprentice Administration Assistant

This is an excellent opportunity to begin your career in the legal sector. As a Legal Administration Apprentice, you will gain valuable experience working in a professional legal environment, developing key administrative and organisational skills while supporting the wider team. You will engage with clients, handle important case documentation, and learn essential legal processes, including billing and compliance.

Key Responsibilities:

Customer Interaction:
Handle telephone enquiries in a professional manner and provide support to clients.

File Management:
Open and close legal case files, ensuring all documentation is correctly recorded and stored.

Document Handling:
Scan, archive, and manage paperwork in line with firm policies and regulatory requirements.

Compliance Checks:
Ensure file compliance, including verifying identification and completing necessary checklists.

Data Entry:
Accurately input information into the case management system, maintaining up-to-date and organised records.

Billing & Time Management:
Develop an understanding of legal billing and time entry processes.

Software Training:
Learn to use QuickBooks and other legal software.

This role provides an excellent foundation for those looking to progress within the legal industry, offering practical experience and professional development opportunities. 

Training:

As part of this programme, you will complete the level 3 Business Administrator apprenticeship standard.

The Business Administrator apprenticeship programme is the perfect entry into a professional working environment. It will provide the opportunity to develop knowledge, skills and behaviours that are desirable within any business sector and will also provide foundation skills that can be developed and built on to progress into supervisory roles.

Training schedule has yet to be agreed. Details will be made available at a later date.

Training Outcome:

During the apprenticeship you would be working towards a business and administration qualification thereafter you may be offered further training in a paralegal role

Employer Description:
KJL Solicitors was established in 2008. Since then we have been offering our clients advice in the complex and fast-changing fields of Employment Law, Commercial and Company Law and providing legal representation in Civil and Commercial Litigation. In 2010 KJL Solicitors relocated from Brundall to Blofield and took premises located in the High Street where we have worked out of ever since. We have expanded our team, introducing local solicitors, licensed conveyancers, mediators and paralegals who deal comprehensively with business sales and purchases, residential property, leases, wills, probate, lasting powers of attorney, divorce, financial affairs, family law and mediation. Our aim is obtaining resolutions quickly, pragmatically and at the lowest possible cost to you. Our reputation and no-nonsense approach has spread to most of the local communities with 90% of the surrounding villages using us repeatedly in their legal matters, this is something we remain very proud of at KJL Solicitors. Over the last 16 plus years we have raised millions in future legacies for an array of charities we are committed to assisting through various will schemes. We are committed to supporting our local communities where we can. Our solicitors with their London based experience are practical and tactical whilst remaining commercially realistic, explore how KJL Solicitors can meet the needs of you, your family, your business and all your future planning.

Working Hours :
Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm with 30 minutes for lunch.

Skills:
Communication skills,IT skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Administrative skills,Analytical skills,Team working,Initiative