Legal Assistant/Secretary

Allen & Overy is one of the world’s leading law firms, operating all over the world. Our precedent-setting, headline-making work wouldn’t be possible without the insight and innovation of thousands of people in Business Services, IT, HR, Finance and Marketing.

We are currently looking for a new full-time colleague to strengthen our team of assistants (back-office support).
Legal Assistant provides back-office administrative support to all lawyers, managers and other colleagues as may be needed. Usual working hours on this position are Monday to Friday from 9:00 until 17:30.

As a Legal Assistant (secretary) at Allen & Overy Bratislava you will be required to provide complex day to day administrative support for lawyers and other colleagues including (but not limiting to):

Technical part/working with documents
- creating documents, incorporating changes into documents, saving documents in the right virtual files
- working with various documents in MS Office applications including agreements, formatting / troubleshooting documents, creating/working with tables, creating presentations
- assisting with spell checking of documents
- assisting with simple translations from/to English language
- preparing documents for meetings, negotiations, signing, court hearings
- assisting with virtual signing processes - completion of contracts in electronic and physical form, controlling of all received materials (especially signature pages)
- assisting with files archiving
- assisting with electronic filing of documents with authorities and courts
- printing, copying, scanning, binding documents

Organisational part
- dealing with phone calls, organising conference calls
- dealing with lawyers' diaries
- communicating with clients (both external and internal)
- assisting with travel arrangements - booking flight tickets, hotels, taxis etc.
- ordering office supplies for the entire office as needed and keeping track/control of these supplies
- organising and participating in various projects in accordance with the instructions of superiors (marketing, pro bono, office, clients')
- cooperating closely and maintaining daily effective communication with other team members/legal assistants
- other activities/tasks related to the functioning of the office

If you think you are the right candidate for this position and you would like to be part of our team, please send us your application together with the motivation letter and CV in both Slovak and English.

- Friendly, challenging, motivating and enthusiastic international working environment
- Attractive remuneration and bonus scheme
- Opportunities to learn and develop professionally and personally
- English classes
- Multisport card
- Meal card
- Private health care services
- Team offsites and events throughout the year (e.g. ski trip, goose dinner, Christmas party, etc.)
- Possibility of working from home after certain time
- Access to free refreshment at the work place (coffee, tea, juices, fruit etc.)
and other.

For this position we organise 2 rounds of interviews in both, Slovak and English language, which include a written test.