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About The Role

We are currently looking for a proactive, highly organised, service focused individual to fulfil a crucial role leading the support staff in our Employment Team. 

Our award-winning team offers specialist advice and support on everything from employment contracts and polices to settlement agreements, restructuring, grievances, discipline and discrimination. We help support both businesses with everything people focused. Our client’s range from medium-sized and major national and international companies and senior executives. 
 
Role Purpose:

Based in Cheltenham and reporting to the Head of the team you will be responsible for the day to day management of all business support to fee earners in the team. Having oversight of the team’s workflow you will coordinate support and ensure all business administrative needs of the team are met. You will also be required to undertake client relationship management and will have responsibility for managing/coordinating key business processes such as our Paperlite initiative and file compliance. 
 
Responsibilities of a Legal Support Manager include:

The day to day management of the team’s support staff including managing holiday, absences and any other people management related issues – e.g. appraisals, coaching, disciplinary, grievance or performance issues. This is currently 6 secretaries in the team.  
Responsibility for the development of colleagues, ensuring any identified learning and development needs for the team are addressed
Recruitment and selection of new support staff within the team 
Liaising with the Head of Team and Partners to coordinate distribution of administrative work across the team
Managing case files - opening, closing, storage and retrieval - ensuring all files are compliant
Be the first point of contact for the team on any business support issues 
Active management of the team’s monthly fee estimation and billing processes
Drafting and formatting of letters, documents, and forms and other administrative duties as may be required

About You

As Legal Support Manager you will have: 

Experience within a legal environment / professional services environment 
A proven track record of supervising team members.
Strong legal administration experience 
Experience in case management systems such as SOS and iManage
Sound knowledge of IT skills in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, Zoom, etc.
The desire for continuous learning and professional development and a strong ability to deliver solutions to problems.
A driving license or the ability to travel to other office locations as required.

About Us

Benefits of working with us as a Legal Support Manager:

Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
Support staff bonus scheme
27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
Cycle to Work scheme
Life Assurance
1/3 gym membership contribution
Flu vaccinations

Is HCR the smart move for you?

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Why HCR people love their jobs

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

What career progression will HCR offer you?

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

 

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients. 

We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process.  Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. 

 
A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership

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