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Job Title
Apprentice Legal Secretary
Closing Date
24-Jun-2023
Position
Full Time - Fixed Term
Business Entity
Gateley Legal
Department
Restructuring
Location
Manchester – United Kingdom
Job Type
Apprentices
Description
The role
We have an exciting opportunity to
recruit a talented Apprentice Legal Secretary to join our
Restructuring team in Manchester. This is an excellent opportunity
to gain some hands-on legal administration experience alongside a
supportive team of legal secretaries and fee earners up to partner level.
You will assist fee earners who
advise a wide variety of clients.
We will provide full training and
support for this position, including allocating a dedicated
supervisor and mentor to the successful candidates.
The successful candidate will
study the Level 3 Business Administrator apprenticeship standard
with Ixion Holdings, our partner training provider. Applicants must
not have a qualification in a similar subject at the same level or
above.
The role will develop with
training and experience, but we expect the successful candidate to
be involved with assisting fee earners in some of the below aspects:
Typing and drafting correspondence
Amending documents
Booking meetings
Assisting with and drafting bills
Arranging and booking travel and
accommodation (occasional)
Opening, maintaining and closing files
Updating and maintaining databases
Scanning and preparing documentation
Filing
Scanning/photocopying
Printing
Diary Management (occasional)
To be aware of and comply with the
company's policies and procedures
The team
Our Restructuring team includes
specialists in restructuring, mainstream transactional and
contentious insolvency work and a team dedicated to overseas
insolvency litigation. We provide advice on financial and
organisational restructuring, spanning issues across the full
spectrum whether that is due to solvent or insolvent business sales
and exits; debt trading; or directors' duties and corporate
governance.
Our lawyers play an active part in
organisations such as the Institute for Turnaround, Turnaround
Management Association, the Association of Business Recovery
Professionals (R3) and the Insolvency Lawyer's Association. And
several of them take part in and chair various central and regional
committees for those industry bodies.
Clients include banks, finance
companies, venture capitalists and insolvency practitioners.
The Restructuring team provide a
nurturing and supportive environment and there is opportunity for
genuine long term progression prospects. We invest in our people,
recruiting and retaining the best in the market. We work hard in
creating an enjoyable workplace culture that encourages the sharing
of knowledge and experience.
The person
Applicants will need to have at
least five GCSE's graded A* - C/9 - 4 or equivalent and be able to
demonstrate the following attributes:
Strong communication skills both
written and verbal
The ability to work as part of a team
The willingness to learn
Attention to detail
Strong organisational skills
Good IT skills
Typing skills
Discretion and professionalism
The benefits
All apprenticestake part in our
Apprentice Development Programme upon joining Gateley. The programme
enables you to network with our wider cohort of apprentices, learn
more about your preferred ways of working, strengths and development
areas, and helps develop your soft skills to progress your career.
With support, coaching and
feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great
development and progression opportunities will reward your
commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package
where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance.
In addition, we have a wide range
of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to
develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex
comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave
(and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical
illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal
pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits
(grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a
host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community
Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to
languages to hip hop dance.
We are Gateley
We are forward thinking and
straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems
that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services
group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and
business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding
the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where
they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging
from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and
beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that
you bring; it's about attitude too.
The 'Gateley Story' is the story
of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are
today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the
Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a
set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team
Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together
as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to
Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the
group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and
beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at
our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.
Diversity, inclusion and well being
Diversity, inclusion and well
being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We
recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and
cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team
regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and
rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and
together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible
working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance
and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role
to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been
recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and
Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving
an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment
screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include
but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and
academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial
stability and references from previous employers. The screening that
takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.