Your primary role as a Legal Assistant, working within our Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury Team, will be to assist the lawyers progressing their cases, which will include the following day to day tasks:

Assisting with Access Requests for medical records and associated follow up

Sorting medical records to produce relevant chronologies

Obtaining additional or missing records or information

Paginating medical records

Collating documents to accompany instructions to experts/counsel

Researching/approaching medical experts

Liaising with clients over the phone or by email

Liaising with the Court and other third parties over the phone or by email

Liaising with Defendant representatives over the phone or by email

Drafting letters/documents

Drafting witness statements

Arranging appointments and conferences

Opening files and drafting new client packs

Insuring cases

Assisting with taking new claims enquiries and obtaining all relevant information when required

Updating internal systems

Assisting Fee Earners and carrying out other ad hoc tasks that assist the team

Maintaining compliance in accordance with internal policies and GDPR

We are looking for an experienced Legal Administrative Support Secretary or Legal Assistant looking for their next role. You should demonstrate an interest for working within a Clinical Negligence and Serious Injury department and will ideally have previous experience of working in a role that has had to deal with medical records and chronologies. We will consider candidates with PI experience., Conscientious and meticulous with great attention to detail

Strong IT skills, particularly experience with having used customer/client databases and MS packages such as Outlook, Word and Excel

Analytical skills

Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

A great team player

Flexible

Holmes & Hills Solicitors is a large regional firm of solicitors with seven offices across Essex and Suffolk and over 200 legal professionals across a number of specialist departments. Holmes & Hills works in partnership with clients across East Anglia, including businesses, individuals, families and local authorities, to build long standing relationships, protect clients' interests and support clients' growth and development.

A supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.

28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays

Medicash and Unum dental cash back schemes after 1 years' service

Life Insurance

EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services

Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave

Company sick pay

Cycle scheme