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Online since 01/04/2024
Legal Assistant Expert - English and Dutch in Elsene
As a high level Legal Assistant you will :
- Work collaboratively with the rest of the legal assistant team to provide comprehensive personal assistant and administrative support.
- Proactively manage and maintain fee earner diaries; coordinating meetings with internal and external clients, ensuring all work activities are scheduled effectively, including the identification and resolution of potential challenges.
- Organise meetings, ensuring rooms and conference facilities are booked, liaising with attendees if necessary both internal and external and making sure that any required catering and technical equipment is in place.
- Organise agendas, presentations and meeting papers, including print production and timely distribution.
- Proactively engage with and assists fee earners regarding work requirements and encourages and supports all team members to utilise the team.
- Communicate with fee earners to keep them appraised of a task’s status.
- Ensure clear and concise record keeping relating to tasks undertaken and correct filing of tasks and supporting materials.
- Client onboarding, setting up correct client master data of the recipient and other details that will show on the face of the invoice
- Create, amend and reformat documents, where appropriate, ensuring that completed documents are delivered accurately to a high standard.
- Arrange travel bookings, including visas, flights, taxis, accommodation, and rental cars.
Who we are looking for:
- Candidates should have between 3 – 5 years of experience as a lawyer in employment law.
- A Belgian Master’s degree in law and the ability to demonstrate solid academic records (magna cum laude). An LLM obtained abroad will be an advantage
- Qualified to practice as a Lawyer in Belgium
- Native Dutch speaker with an excellent or near-native command of English (both written and spoken).
- Excellent legal and technical language skills
- High work standards with strong service orientation
- Excellent communication skills
- A motivated, open minded individual with international mindset who will thrive in an environment where excellence, innovation and going that extra mile are the norm
- You have excellent legal skills and an analytical mind, with attention to detail
- Ability to prioritise and efficiently deal with complex files
- Well organised, proactive, flexible, pragmatic, social and a team player
- Ability to work in a fast-paced international environment
- Accuracy, confidentiality and punctuality are second nature to you
- Keen on working in a dynamic yet demanding and rewarding context
- A full time permanent contract.
- A very competitive salary package: meal vouchers, group insurance, hospitality insurance,...
- Working from home is possible for this role, depending on the needs of the Partner and other colleagues, after 6 months of training.
- Sector: Lawyer / Notary
We offer you an amazing job at a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Their global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. The office is located in the heart of Brussels.
