Practice Executive​/Legal Secretary

The Opportunity:

The Practice Executive is a key role in the Legal Operations Support team, based in London.

Reporting into one of our Assistant Operations Managers, the purpose of the role to to provide high level, proactive business support to an allocation of Partners ensuring the effective completion of tasks using appropriate resources such as the Local Hub and Global Shared Services.

This role will support four Partners within the Global Markets practice group. This is a full-time permanent role, based in our London office with hybrid working.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Manage, track and coordinate the review of WIP and matter billings with the relevant associate/partner
• Work with Financial Management to prepare timely and accurate client invoices.
• Active diary management and gatekeeping, including coordinating complex travel and resource requirements
• Coordinating, or delegating as appropriate, meeting requirements (room bookings, attendee invitations, resources, catering), including scheduling arrangements across time zones.
• Monitoring and managing inboxes, using initiative to re-route or prioritise, and action or draft response for review in order to reduce volume
• Attending client meetings when req...