Senior Personal Assistant (Commercial Litigation Team) - 12 month fixed term contract

About The Role:

We are looking for an experienced Senior PA to join our Dispute Resolution Group within the Commercial Litigation team in London on a 12-month fixed term contract. This role involves providing efficient administrative support to fee earners, helping manage their workload, and ensuring high-quality legal services for clients. You will also develop a strong understanding of client needs to consistently deliver excellent service.

About You:

We are seeking an individual who demonstrates an excellent telephone manner and the confidence to handle routine client queries, taking appropriate action in the absence of fee earners. Strong communication, organisational, and team skills are essential, as is exceptional attention to detail. 

The ideal candidate will be flexible, proactive, and dependable, with a results-oriented approach. It is crucial that they can remain calm under pressure, work to tight deadlines, prioritise their workload, and confidently take the initiative. 

Additionally, the successful candidate should be conscientious, approachable, and enthusiastic, able to quickly build confidence, respect, and trust with others, and possess advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, research tools, and an adaptability to learn and use other systems implemented by the firm.

What We Can Offer You:

Gowling WLG has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 25 consecutive years. 

Excellent Benefits, Including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices in London, overlooking Tower Bridge, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment.  The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.  This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work.  Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at meg.astley@gowlingwlg.com