294 Judicial Support jobs in South Africa

Overview

We are looking for an experienced legal assistant who can help the attorneys at our law office assist clients. You’ll be responsible for managing office correspondence, including answering phone calls and emails, arranging meetings and travel, and ensuring our legal team is aware of upcoming deadlines. You’ll also assist with preparing legal documents and contracts, and perform any other tasks as needed to ensure our firm is operating efficiently.

• Manage office correspondence, including answering phone calls and emails.
• Arrange meetings and travel for the legal team.
• Ensure the legal team is aware of upcoming deadlines.
• Assist with preparing legal documents and contracts.
• Perform any other tasks as needed to ensure the firm operates efficiently.

• Experience as a legal assistant or in a similar role.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver a high-quality work product.

Compensation: $12,000 - $15,000 yearly

• Seniority level: Entry level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Legal
• Industries: Legal Services

Overview

Job Title: Legal Assistant
Location: Germiston Branch
Salary Grade: PASS1
Reporting to: Branch Manager
Reporting staff: None
Type of Position: Permanent
Working hours: Mondays to Fridays from 08h00 – 16h30

Alternate Saturdays from 09h00 – 12h30

• Consulting with Members
• Attending to clients and providing legal advice and assistance
• File Management – Ensuring that all case files are maintained and regularly updated
• Correspondence Management – Despatch incoming and outgoing correspondence for legal advisors
• General Administration – Attend to general administrative tasks associated with legal matters
• Providing Feedback to clients – Ensuring that clients receive regular updates and feedback

At Paymentology, we are redefining what’s possible in the payments space. As the first truly global issuer-processor, we give banks and fintechs the technology and talent to launch and manage Mastercard and Visa cards at scale - across more than 60 countries.

We’re looking for a detail-oriented, proactive and tech-savvy Legal Assistant / Legal Secretary who thrives on precision, structure and proactive support. This role is critical to keeping the Legal team organised, responsive and well-coordinated by managing internal workflows, documentation, team calendars and legal tools. If you thrive in high-trust, fast-moving environments, enjoy bringing structure to complex workstreams and are eager to contribute to a busy Legal team, we want to hear from you. This role will be at the heart of our global Legal team — keeping documentation clean, redlines crisp and workflows moving across time zones.

Please note this is a hybrid position for candidates based in Johannesburg, with 2 days per week in our Johannesburg office.

• Monitor and manage the Legal team’s pipeline, ensuring tasks are triaged, assigned and tracked to resolution.
• Anticipate team needs and implement systems to prevent administrative bottlenecks or information loss.
• Track incoming legal requests from cross-functional teams, follow up as needed and maintain visibility on progress and bottlenecks.
• Format, proofread and prepare standard legal documents to a high standard.
• Coordinate document execution viaDocuSign, ensuring proper signatory routing, follow-up and archiving.
• Maintain digital records of signed contracts and legal documents in clearly structured repositories with consistent naming and access controls.
• Review and finalise redlines and mark-ups with high attention to formatting, consistency and version control.
• Maintain version histories and audit trails for all contracts and legal files.
• Meticulously review, clean and finalise redlines and mark-ups.
• Ensure accurate version control, tracked changes and alignment with team conventions.
• Ensure documents are client-ready, properly styled and free of formatting inconsistencies or metadata issues.
• Coordinating and minuting weekly team meetings and monthly meetings with other teams.
• Maintain team shared mailboxes and calendars.
• Send meeting invites, prepare agendas and track follow-ups or action items from team discussions.
• Assist in onboarding new team members with access to legal tools, calendars and shared resources.
• Serve as the first point of contact for troubleshooting Legal tools.
• Support the setup of new workflows, templates or folders under the direction of the Legal team leads.
• Coordinate access and permissions to legal document repositories to ensure confidentiality and efficiency.
• Handle sensitive legal and commercial documents with strict confidentiality and discretion.
• Identify recurring legal administration issues and propose improvements.

At Paymentology, it’s not just about building great payment technology, it’s about building a company where people feel they belong and their work matters. You’ll be part of a diverse, global team that’s genuinely committed to making a positive impact through what we do. Whether you’re working across time zones or getting involved in initiatives that support local communities, you’ll find real purpose in your work - and the freedom to grow in a supportive, forward-thinking environment.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a legal assistant, legal secretary or legal ops support role.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities across a distributed team.
• Comfortable working independently, yet collaborative in nature — someone who thrives on enabling others to move faster with confidence.
• Calm under pressure, with a flexible, service-minded approach to shifting priorities.
• Basic understanding of legal terminology, contracts and documentation.
• Strong attention to detail, particularly with written documents, versioning and formatting.
• Clear communicator, both written and verbal, with a proactive and collaborative working style.
• Tech-savvy with demonstrated experience especially using word, pipeline / project tools, DocuSign and SharePoint.
• Familiarity with legal team workflows in fintech, payments, or high-growth technology environments.
• Experience working with legal templates, contract repositories or intake pipelines.
• Prior exposure to sprint or agile-style team operations.

• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role with references.
• Additional secretarial or legal admin training preferred.
• Certificate, diploma or degree in Legal Studies, Paralegal Studies, Business Administration or a related field is advantageous.

At Paymentology, we are redefining what’s possible in the payments space. As the first truly global issuer-processor, we give banks and fintechs the technology and talent to launch and manage Mastercard and Visa cards at scale - across more than 60 countries.

We’re looking for a detail-oriented, proactive and tech-savvy Legal Assistant / Legal Secretary who thrives on precision, structure and proactive support. This role is critical to keeping the Legal team organised, responsive and well-coordinated by managing internal workflows, documentation, team calendars and legal tools. If you thrive in high-trust, fast-moving environments, enjoy bringing structure to complex workstreams and are eager to contribute to a busy Legal team, we want to hear from you. This role will be at the heart of our global Legal team — keeping documentation clean, redlines crisp and workflows moving across time zones.

Please note this is a hybrid position for candidates based in Johannesburg, with 2 days per week in our Johannesburg office.

• Monitor and manage the Legal team’s pipeline, ensuring tasks are triaged, assigned and tracked to resolution.
• Anticipate team needs and implement systems to prevent administrative bottlenecks or information loss.
• Track incoming legal requests from cross-functional teams, follow up as needed and maintain visibility on progress and bottlenecks.
• Format, proofread and prepare standard legal documents to a high standard.
• Coordinate document execution viaDocuSign, ensuring proper signatory routing, follow-up and archiving.
• Maintain digital records of signed contracts and legal documents in clearly structured repositories with consistent naming and access controls.
• Review and finalise redlines and mark-ups with high attention to formatting, consistency and version control.
• Maintain version histories and audit trails for all contracts and legal files.
• Meticulously review, clean and finalise redlines and mark-ups.
• Ensure accurate version control, tracked changes and alignment with team conventions.
• Ensure documents are client-ready, properly styled and free of formatting inconsistencies or metadata issues.
• Coordinating and minuting weekly team meetings and monthly meetings with other teams.
• Maintain team shared mailboxes and calendars.
• Send meeting invites, prepare agendas and track follow-ups or action items from team discussions.
• Assist in onboarding new team members with access to legal tools, calendars and shared resources.
• Serve as the first point of contact for troubleshooting Legal tools.
• Support the setup of new workflows, templates or folders under the direction of the Legal team leads.
• Coordinate access and permissions to legal document repositories to ensure confidentiality and efficiency.
• Handle sensitive legal and commercial documents with strict confidentiality and discretion.
• Identify recurring legal administration issues and propose improvements.

At Paymentology, it’s not just about building great payment technology, it’s about building a company where people feel they belong and their work matters. You’ll be part of a diverse, global team that’s genuinely committed to making a positive impact through what we do. Whether you’re working across time zones or getting involved in initiatives that support local communities, you’ll find real purpose in your work - and the freedom to grow in a supportive, forward-thinking environment.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a legal assistant, legal secretary or legal ops support role.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities across a distributed team.
• Comfortable working independently, yet collaborative in nature — someone who thrives on enabling others to move faster with confidence.
• Calm under pressure, with a flexible, service-minded approach to shifting priorities.
• Basic understanding of legal terminology, contracts and documentation.
• Strong attention to detail, particularly with written documents, versioning and formatting.
• Clear communicator, both written and verbal, with a proactive and collaborative working style.
• Tech-savvy with demonstrated experience especially using word, pipeline / project tools, DocuSign and SharePoint.
• Familiarity with legal team workflows in fintech, payments, or high-growth technology environments.
• Experience working with legal templates, contract repositories or intake pipelines.
• Prior exposure to sprint or agile-style team operations.

• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role with references.
• Additional secretarial or legal admin training preferred.
• Certificate, diploma or degree in Legal Studies, Paralegal Studies, Business Administration or a related field is advantageous.

Overview

At Paymentology , we are redefining what’s possible in the payments space. As the first truly global issuer-processor, we give banks and fintechs the technology and talent to launch and manage Mastercard and Visa cards at scale - across more than 60 countries.

We’re looking for a detail-oriented, proactive and tech-savvy Legal Assistant / Legal Secretary who thrives on precision, structure and proactive support. This role is critical to keeping the Legal team organised, responsive and well-coordinated by managing internal workflows, documentation, team calendars and legal tools. If you thrive in high-trust, fast-moving environments, enjoy bringing structure to complex workstreams and are eager to contribute to a busy Legal team, we want to hear from you. This role will be at the heart of our global Legal team — keeping documentation clean, redlines crisp and workflows moving across time zones.

Please note this is a hybrid position for candidates based in Johannesburg, with 2 days per week in our Johannesburg office.

• Monitor and manage the Legal team’s pipeline, ensuring tasks are triaged, assigned and tracked to resolution.
• Anticipate team needs and implement systems to prevent administrative bottlenecks or information loss.
• Track incoming legal requests from cross-functional teams, follow up as needed and maintain visibility on progress and bottlenecks.
• Format, proofread and prepare standard legal documents to a high standard.
• Coordinate document execution via DocuSign, ensuring proper signatory routing, follow-up and archiving.
• Maintain digital records of signed contracts and legal documents in clearly structured repositories with consistent naming and access controls.
• Review and finalise redlines and mark-ups with high attention to formatting, consistency and version control.
• Maintain version histories and audit trails for all contracts and legal files.
• Meticulously review, clean and finalise redlines and mark-ups.
• Ensure accurate version control, tracked changes and alignment with team conventions.
• Ensure documents are client-ready, properly styled and free of formatting inconsistencies or metadata issues.
• Coordinating and minuting weekly team meetings and monthly meetings with other teams.
• Maintain team shared mailboxes and calendars.
• Send meeting invites, prepare agendas and track follow-ups or action items from team discussions.
• Assist in onboarding new team members with access to legal tools, calendars and shared resources.
• Serve as the first point of contact for troubleshooting Legal tools.
• Support the setup of new workflows, templates or folders under the direction of the Legal team leads.
• Coordinate access and permissions to legal document repositories to ensure confidentiality and efficiency.
• Handle sensitive legal and commercial documents with strict confidentiality and discretion.
• Identify recurring legal administration issues and propose improvements.

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a legal assistant, legal secretary or legal ops support role.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities across a distributed team.
• Comfortable working independently, yet collaborative in nature — someone who thrives on enabling others to move faster with confidence.
• Calm under pressure, with a flexible, service-minded approach to shifting priorities.
• Basic understanding of legal terminology, contracts and documentation.
• Strong attention to detail, particularly with written documents, versioning and formatting.
• Clear communicator, both written and verbal, with a proactive and collaborative working style.
• Tech-savvy with demonstrated experience especially using word, pipeline/project tools, DocuSign and SharePoint.
• Familiarity with legal team workflows in fintech, payments, or high-growth technology environments.
• Experience working with legal templates, contract repositories or intake pipelines.
• Prior exposure to sprint or agile-style team operations.

• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role with references.
• Additional secretarial or legal admin training preferred.
• Certificate, diploma or degree in Legal Studies, Paralegal Studies, Business Administration or a related field is advantageous.

At Paymentology , it’s not just about building great payment technology, it’s about building a company where people feel they belong and their work matters. You’ll be part of a diverse, global team that’s genuinely committed to making a positive impact through what we do. Whether you’re working across time zones or getting involved in initiatives that support local communities, you’ll find real purpose in your work - and the freedom to grow in a supportive, forward-thinking environment.

DETAILS OF THE VACANCY

Job Title Legal Assistant Location Johannesburg Legal Backroom Salary Grade PASS1 Reporting to Branch Manager Reporting staff None Type of Position Permanent Working hours Mondays to Fridays from 08h00 – 16h30

Alternate Saturdays from 09h00 – 12h30

Confirmation of Instructions and providing Legal Advice and

Paralegal Assistance to members Consulting members telephonically in order to confirm instructions where this is

necessary. to take instructions and to provide legal advice and paralegal assistance to

members. Correspondence Management Attend to incoming and outgoing correspondence from and to members or third parties. General Administration Attend to general administrative tasks associated with legal and non-legal matters. Providing Feedback to clients Ensuring that clients receive regular updates and feedback on their existing matters.

MINIMUM CRITERIA AND PRE-REQUISITE COMPETENCIES

EducationMatric and National Cert/Diploma in Paralegal Studies / MENU 1 (internal applicants)ExperienceAt least 1year experience in a legal environment.

Legal Interns: Must have completed a minimum of 6 months internship, coupled

with a signed off POE, and must have completed all core legal trainingsPersonal

AttributesIntegrity

Customer Service Orientation.Pre-requisite

CompetenciesAttention to Detail

Planning and Organising Skills

Time Management Skills

PRE-REQUISITE COMPETENCIES

Knowledge CompetenciesProfessional knowledge

Product KnowledgeSkill CompetenciesAccuracy

Administrative skills

Analytical thinking ability

Computer literacy

Verbal communication

Written CommunicationBehavioural CompetenciesAdministrative orientation

Computer systems orientation

Customer service orientation

Persistence

Personal growth orientation

APPLICATION AND CONTACT DETAILS

To apply for this position, send in your updated cv. together with the completed application form.

Contact Person Thembi Tambani on Email: .bizReference NumberWhen submitting your application, please quote reference number: SLP/064-25Closing DateTuesday, 16 September 2025

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The company's intention is to promote equity through filling of all numeric targets as contained in the Employment Equity Plan. To facilitate this process successfully, an indication of race, gender and disability status is required on your application.Please note that the employment of family relatives is strictly prohibited.

In the event of no internal applications having been received, external applications will be considered. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful.

PROTECTION OF PRIVACY

Scorpion Legal Protection is committed to protecting your privacy. Your information will be used properly, lawfully, securely and transparently for the purpose of recruitment processes. Scorpion Legal Protection has implemented appropriate technical and organisational information security measures to help keep your information secure, accurate and current.

DETAILS OF THE VACANCY

Job Title

Legal Assistant

Location

Express Branch Support Centre

Salary Grade

PASS 1

Reporting to

Express Branch Manager

Reporting staff

None

Type of Position

Permanent

Working hours

Mondays to Fridays from 08h00 – 16h30

Alternate Saturdays from 09h00 – 12h30

PURPOSE OF THE POSITION AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The purpose of this position is to provide administrative and other support to the Supervisor/Manager at express branch level and to assist members (clients) with legal advice and paralegal solutions to common problems, within the Company's set parameters and Membership Agreement.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

File Management

Ensuring that all case files are maintained and regularly updated

Correspondence Management

Despatch incoming and outgoing correspondence for legal counsellor

Attending to drafting and responding to correspondence on behalf of clients

Liaison with attorneys/ Claims Department

Attend to obtaining advice and instructions on legal matters

Providing feedback to clients

Ensuring that clients receive regular updates and feedback

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND GENERAL WORKING CONDITIONS

Education

Matric and National Cert/Diploma in Paralegal Studies and;

Passed Menu 1 (for Internal applicants)

Experience

At least 1year experience in a legal environment.

Personal Attributes

Integrity

Customer Service Orientation.

PRE-REQUISITE COMPETENCIES

Knowledge Competencies

Professional knowledge

Product knowledge

Skill Competencies

Accuracy

Administrative skills

Analytical thinking ability

Computer literacy

Verbal communication

Written Communication

Behavioural Competencies

Administrative orientation

Computer systems orientation

Customer service orientation

Persistence

Personal growth orientation

Other

Must be computer literate; specifically, proficient in MS Word, Excel and Outlook

Must relocate at own cost

ITC/criminal check will be a requirement

General working conditions

Express branch office environment and no health and safety risks involved.

APPLICATION AND CONTACT DETAILS

To apply for this position, send in your updated CV.

Contact Person

Thembi Tambani: recruitment@

Reference Number

When submitting your application, please quote reference number: SLP-062/25

Closing Date

Tuesday, 26 August 2025

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY

The company's intention is to promote equity through filling of all numeric targets as contained in the Employment Equity Plan. To facilitate this process successfully, an indication of race, gender and disability status is required on your application. Please note that the employment of family relatives is strictly prohibited.

In the event of no internal applications having been received, external applications will be considered. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful.

PRIVACY STATEMENT

Scorpion Legal Protection is committed to protecting your privacy. Your information will be used properly, lawfully, securely and transparently for the purpose of recruitment processes. Scorpion Legal Protection has implemented appropriate technical and organisational information security measures to help keep your information secure, accurate, and current.

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: R16 111,00 - R22 972,00 per month

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Johannesburg, Gauteng: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Education:

• Certificate (Required)

Experience:

• Minimum: 1 year (Required)

Work Location: In person

Application Deadline: 2025/08/26

We are looking for an experienced legal assistant who can help the attorneys at our law office assist clients. You'll be responsible for managing office correspondence, including answering phone calls and emails, arranging meetings and travel, and ensuring our legal team is aware of upcoming deadlines.

You'll also assist with preparing legal documents and contracts, and perform any other tasks as needed to ensure our firm is operating efficiently. If you work well in a fast-paced environment and consistently deliver a high-quality work product, reach out to us today

Compensation:

$12,000 - $15,000 yearly

Responsibilities:

Attorney-Focused Tasks

• Keeps attorneys' calendars and sends reminders. Assuring that the attorneys' calendars are accurately maintained and organized. Assuring that the attorneys' workdays are organized in a logical and efficient manner.
• Reviews attorney's calendar each morning, including deadlines, and ensures that the attorney is updated on all tasks and deadlines due over the next 5 days.
• Retrieves and delivers assigned attorney's voicemails and assures that copies are included in the Firm's client electronic files.
• Prepares and sends legal correspondence as directed by attorneys (puts documents keyboarded initially by attorneys into final form, ready to be delivered to courts, clients, co-counsel, and opposing counsel).
• Drafts/Prepares first drafts of draft notices, motions, petitions, and other pleadings with case information and leaves for attorney review, editing, and specific legal drafting.
• Draft non-legal correspondence and communication with the Firm's external stakeholders.
• Organizes the attorneys' files; ensures that the attorney has all the relevant materials ready when the attorney has meetings or leaves the office for court or outside meetings.

Administrative Tasks

• Sets up and manages new client and firm files.
• Manages all Clio Tasks assigned to themselves and/or their attorney.
• Updates Clio custom fields for all Matters and Contacts associated with each of their assigned attorneys' cases.
• Assist with Policies and Procedures.

Qualifications:

• Candidates must have worked with legal software, case management, and docketing programs
• Associate's degree, or some college is preferred; high school diploma or equivalent is necessary
• Candidates should be able to type at least 50 words per minute
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and meet deadlines with quick turnaround times
• At least 1-2 years of previous experience in a law firm setting performing administrative tasks

About Company

About Robinson and Casey, PLLC

We are a fast-growing, busy law firm that helps people across the state of Florida get access to recovery for their loved ones, whether that be for addiction or mental health – often times when they feel like it is out of reach. Through legal representation and additional support services, we help people when they are going through challenging times.

At Robinson & Casey, PLLC, we are passionate about serving others with dedication, integrity, and teamwork. Our values — Integrity, Service, Courage, Perseverance, Honesty & Empathy — guide everything we do.