Experienced Legal Virtual Assistant

We are a small law firm based in South Australia protecting the rights of our community for over 130 years. We have worked (and still working) with awesome VAs from the Philippines for 10 years now.

We are looking for EXPERIENCED Legal Virtual Assistants to assist our lawyers with their emails - what we refer to as email triage, and entering documents received and sent out into our practice management system. Also performing other tasks usually expected of an executive personal assistant such as calendar organizing/planing and bringing urgent tasks to attention.

--> We would prefer someone with experience working online with lawyers or law firms.

--> We are looking for someone willing to commit long-term. We do not want to waste our time training individuals who would eventually leave the company after a few months.

We would like to give you a try if you are or have any of the following:

*Excellent English skills, both written and verbal.
*VA experience for a minimum of 2 years (preferably with a law firm client)
*Laptop or PC with minimum specifications: i5-8th gen, 4GB RAM, 512SSD, Windows 10 pro

Expected tasks include, but not limited to:

*Primary contact with Lawyer is through Microsoft Teams
*Email Management - replying to management emails if possible, otherwise deferring (and moving from inbox to folder) to ask what to do when meeting with the lawyer.
*Forwarding client-related emails to the appropriate assistant if they have not been Cc'd in: if possible then tasking assistant to prepare response or documents.
*Placing return calls into tasks.
*Costing emails to our practice management system.
*Importing documents into our practice managment system and costing them.
*Reporting first thing- what's on / tasks to be done/ asking whether you can assist
*Checking the lawyer's calendar in advance to see conflicts.
*Organising Appointments with clients as requested
*Making sure other staff have appropriate appointments in their calendar

DISCLAIMER:
The position will start as part-time but eventually, evlove into a full-time position after training.

How should you apply?
Answer some of our questions here: ---------- /r/iErg9PG9PC
We will not entertain applications sent via OLJ.

Good luck!