The Role
The Legal Administrator supports fee earners by managing administrative tasks, coordinating meetings, maintaining records, and ensuring smooth office operations. Responsibilities include document management, client communication, and billing liaison.
Summary Generated by Built In
Working side by side with fee earners to carry out and assist with all their non-fee earning administrative tasks and supporting them to efficiently deliver their legal fee earning work. We need someone who is highly organised with solid administrative skills and a willingness to adapt and be flexible. As an integral member of the central support team, the individual will also contribute towards the smooth operation of the office.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing comprehensive administrative and secretarial support to fee earners, including managing emails, messages, diaries, appointments, and meeting coordination.
- Arranging all practical aspects of client meetings and conference calls, including booking meeting rooms, issuing calendar invites, preparing rooms, and welcoming clients.
- Entering meetings, events, and client information into the CRM system and maintaining accurate contact records in Outlook.
- Assisting with the organisation of firm, team, and business development events.
- Coordinating off‑island travel arrangements, including flights, accommodation, and meeting schedules.
- Working collaboratively with the support team to ensure the smooth day‑to‑day operation of the office, including reception cover, answering phones, post and courier management, DocuSign processing, and providing cover during lunch and peak periods.
- Working flexibly to ensure consistent support cover throughout the working week to meet client and business needs.
- Supporting matter lifecycle management, including assisting with new matter openings, preparing draft engagement letters, and ensuring files are accurately maintained.
- Liaising with Finance on billing processes, WIP, expense claims, time entries, third‑party payments, internal and external queries, and matter closures.
- Preparing, formatting, proof‑reading and converting documents and reports, including PowerPoint presentations.
- Managing document production, including printing, scanning, copying, collating, court filings, bundling and completion documentation.
- Maintaining electronic and physical filing systems, including creating files and folders, organising and archiving documents, retrieving archived files, and managing datarooms.
- Assisting with legal research, company searches, and analysis as required.
- Carrying out legal administration tasks, projects and other duties as delegated by Partners, the Office Manager, or fee earners.
Qualifications
- Ideally a graduate, or at least educated to High School level or equivalent with strong grades
- An administration or secretarial qualification would be advantageous
Knowledge/skills/experience
- Prior experience in a professional services firm, ideally within a legal environment but this is not essential
- Confident and competent IT user with a sound working knowledge of MS Office to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook
- Experience of document management systems would be advantageous
- Excellent typing and formatting skills
- Highly organised with the ability to multi-task and prioritise tasks
- Willingness and ability to learn
Competencies
We would like you to have:
- Team spirit and flexibility to share workload and support the administration team
- Good initiative to support fee earners, resolve issues and to work independently with appropriate supervision
- Enthusiasm, drive, flexibility, initiative and the ability to be pro-active
- A calm and proactive approach even when under pressure and managing deadlines
- Accuracy and a good eye for detail
- A confident communicator in all forms
In this role you will be expected to:
- Behave in a manner in keeping with our core culture and values.
- Adhere to all policies, procedures and regulations including those around anti-money laundering and terrorist financing.
- Commit to fulfilling any personal CPD requirements and continually developing your skills and knowledge.
About
Since 1939, clients have come to us for straight-talking legal advice.Today you’ll find the same sound judgement and pragmatism across our offices in the BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Jersey, London, and Singapore.Our smart, approachable teams design informed, and inventive legal solutions. The expertise you expect, offered with a refreshing simplicity and clarity. We also invest in mutually committed relationships with our clients as we believe strong foundations make for smoother roads.Over the years, we’ve learned the importance of these principles, while playing our part in defining the modern offshore legal industry.Our founder, George Bedell, helped establish Jersey’s progressive tax system. And the island’s first female advocate, Anita Regal, hailed from Bedell Cristin.We are proud of where we have come from - and we value what we have learned along the way.
Skills Required
- Graduate or at least educated to High School level or equivalent with strong grades
- Administration or secretarial qualification
- Prior experience in a professional services firm
- Confident and competent IT user
- Experience of document management systems
- Excellent typing and formatting skills
- Highly organised with multi-tasking abilities
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The Company
What We Do
Bedell Cristin is a global, full-service offshore law firm providing corporate, institutional, and private clients with straight-talking legal advice.
