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We’ll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.

The role of a Clerk is pivotal in ensuring the efficient and effective operation of the Advocacy team. This role will be responsible for providing comprehensive clerking and administrative support to our advocates, enabling them to focus on their legal practice while ensuring the highest level of service to our clients.

The key responsibilities of this role will be:

• • Client Liaison: Serve as the primary point of contact between fee earners and advocates, maintaining excellent professional relationships, and ensuring fee earners’ needs are met promptly. 
  • Diary Management: Effectively manage the advocates’ schedules, including identifying available advocates, booking court dates, meetings, and conferences, diarising deadlines and notifying advocates of any changes.
  • Briefing and Administration: Oversee incoming briefs and bundles, ensure these are delivered to the advocate on time and in an accessible format and keeping the case management system up to date.
  • Business Development: Support business development activities to foster growth and revenue generation.
  • Team Management: Support the day-to-day management of the team, including organising team meetings, preparing, and maintaining team documents and databases, and organising travel. 
  • Compliance: Ensure compliance with legal regulations, quality standards, and data protection laws, maintaining the highest standards of confidentiality.
  • Fees and Billing: Provide time/fee estimates to fee earners on request.
  • Legal support: Provide support to advocates including bespoke research and advice. 

The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of the UK legal system and legal procedures with a particular understanding of advocacy and the work of advocates and barristers. They will also have a clear understanding of the areas of law which the IM Advocacy team works in and the experience and skills of each advocate in the team.

Good working knowledge of the different legal tools, textbooks and databases as well as the civil procedure rules and court guides to enable the candidate to support the Advocates with pieces of specific research would also be essential.

They will also have:

• Exceptional organizational and time management skills.
• Proficiency in relevant software and case management systems.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported.  This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. 

Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group’s on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group’s employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.

We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks ­with our trusted 3rd parties.

The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.