26 Legal Support jobs in South Africa
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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.
Responsibilities- Manage office correspondence, including answering phone calls and emails, and arrange meetings and travel.
- Inform the legal team of upcoming deadlines and ensure timely follow-up.
- Assist with preparing legal documents and contracts.
- Perform other tasks as needed to keep the firm operating efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience as a legal assistant or paralegal preferred.
- Strong organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and deliver high-quality work.
$12,000 - $15,000 yearly
Employment typeFull-time
LocationPalm Beach area
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- Prepare, draft, and edit legal documents including court forms and templated pleadings.
- File/serve legal documents in compliance with applicable procedures in state and federal court.
- Track important case deadlines and ensure timely filing and service.
- Work efficiently under pressure while handling urgent matters with professionalism and accuracy.
- Communicate effectively with court staff and other legal professionals.
- Assist with case organization, document management, and scheduling as needed.
- Be open to learning and understanding legal procedures, terms, and evolving practices in the field.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information and demonstrate a high level of discretion.
Compensation & Benefits
$25.00 - 38.00 per hour + benefits (healthcare, 401k, PTO, etc.)
Benefits:
- 401k with Employer Match
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- STD, LTD & Life Insurance
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Parking
- Referral Program
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Discount Program
Position:
- Type: Full-time
- Remote: No
- Location: Century City
Strategic Legal Practices, APC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
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Who we are
We are a leading real estate services company that combines global standards with specialised local knowledge to create customisable high-performance solutions for our clients. We advise property owners and occupiers on every aspect of their property strategies and assist them in the development, buying, selling, leasing, valuing and management of their assets. Our dedication to quality and excellence sets us apart in the industry.
Why choose us
Be part of a forward-thinking culture that values entrepreneurial spirit and celebrates your best work. Collaborate with talented property professionals, leverage unparalleled resources, and enjoy opportunities for both personal and professional growth. At JHI, your contributions are encouraged and celebrated, ensuring a rewarding journey as you advance in your career.
About the role
As the Legal Assistant for a designated Portfolio, you will be responsible for coordinating all legal matters pertaining to property management. Your role will involve providing comprehensive legal advisory services both internally and to the designated Landlord, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
What you will bring
Inherent requirements for the position (non-negotiable)
- Minimum qualification grade 12
- A diploma or degree in Legal studies is preferred.
- 3-5 years of experience in property management.
- Good understanding of South African property management practices
- Strong insight intodebt collection processes and tenant communication
- Experience in project management within the real estate sector
- Proficiency in MS Office, particularly Excel, Word, and Outlook, to efficiently manage documentation and reporting.
- Advanced Excel skills which include pivot tables, VLOOKUP
- Excellent time management and administrative abilities, with a strong focus on accuracy and productivity in all tasks.
- Ability to foster and maintain strong professional relationships, contributing to effective teamwork and collaboration.
- Demonstrated strengths in communication, analytical thinking, and problem-solving, with the capacity to thrive under pressure.
- A commitment to delivering high-quality service, ensuring customer satisfaction and alignment with business objectives.
What you will be doing
In-house Soft Debt Collection
- Coordinate tenant communication for outstanding payments.
- Manage payment plan negotiations.
- Track and follow up on payment commitments.
- Prepare detailed handover documentation for external attorney referrals.
- Maintain comprehensive tenant payment histories and communication logs.
Handover Instructions to External Panel of Attorneys:
- Ensure in-house attorney has all the necessary documentation for disclosure at court to prove any relevant case.
- Ensure in-house has all relevant information on each transaction on the recon and has the necessary proof for each entry.
- Discussions with attorneys and Landlord in respect of suggested way forward.
Coordination and administrative support for settlements by ensuring:
- All legal elements have been checked and are correct before any setttlement proposal is accepted
- The full debt and legal fees have been taken into consideration.
- The offer tabled would be acceptable to the landlord.
- All disputes are resolved and corrected and the relevant systems are updated.
- Minutes are taken and filed accordinlgy
- Counter proposals are communicated between landlord and tenant.
- Acknowledgment of Debts is signed by both parties and filed.
Legal Meetings and Management:
- Schedule and conduct monthly meetings with attorneys to discuss strategy and updates on legal matters.
Closing Legal Matters:
- Ensure all accounts and legal fees are settled before closing matters.
- Update systems and inform relevant stakeholders upon closure.
Reporting and Compliance:
- Prepare detailed reports in line with landlord policies, including bad debt provisions and legal costs.
- Ensure compliance with write-off policies and timely audits.
Business Rescue and Liquidation Support:
- Prepare and submit claims, attend creditor meetings, and provide legal advice on risks and claims.
JHI is committed to striving for diversity and equitable representationin our workforce. Preference may thus be given to suitably qualified candidates as identified in our employment equity plan. Persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
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About The Role
Legal Assistant
We are currently looking for a pro active professional within an interest in the legal sector to fulfil a crucial role in our support staff within our Residential Property team in Worcester. The Residential Property team is a fast growing, highly collaborative team with vast opportunity to excel within your career.
Based inWorcesterand reporting to our Associate. The Legal Assistant role objective is to provide in-depth business support to the fee earners within the team, including the following responsibilities:
- Drafting and formatting of letters, documents, and forms such as sale contracts and exchange and completion letters.
- Conduct searches (Local Authority, Land Registry, Insolvency, Compliance Regulation)
- Being a first point of contact for any administrative and business support requirements for fee earners, anticipating the teams needs where possible.
- Supporting the file opening process for the team.
- Assisting with the preparation of all financial transactions as require, including new matter quotes.
- Filtering client and agent queries, at times being the first point of contact for clients.
About You
As a Legal Assistant you will have:
- Sound knowledge of IT systems including full Microsoft Office suite and Teams.
- E xcellent attention to detail in all aspects of your work, with confident typing abilities.
- S trong communication and organisation skills.
- Experience in a client facing environment would be advantageous.
- Former experience within a legal/professional services environment would be desirable but not essential.
- Experience in case management systems is preferable but not essential.
About Us
Benefits of working with us as a Legal Support Assistant include:
- 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- Bonus scheme
- Life Assurance
- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
- Healthcare cash-plan
- 1/3 gym membership contribution
- Electric vehicle scheme
- Happy People/Perks at Work benefits portal
- Cycle to Work scheme
- 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 are privileged to be an armed forces-friendly organisation.
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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Our Client in the Fuel Supply Industry is seeking a Legal Assistant to join their team. The successful incumbent will be responsible for the coordination and implementation of the legal services functions. The role includes ensuring that board procedures are both followed and regularly reviewed.
Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12 / Matric
- Degree in Business Management and/or a legal postgraduate qualification
- 3 – 5 previous professional administrative or commercial work experience.
- Knowledge of company secretarial functions
- Experience in a senior operations or administrative management role (advantageous)
Job Responsibilities
Corporate Governance
- Convening and servicing annual general meeting and board meetings (producing agendas, taking minutes, conveying decisions)
- Providing support to committees and working parties such as the Board of Directors.
- Implementing decisions of the Board.
- Keeping a list of current shareholders and liaising with them.
- Ensure all necessary resolutions and minutes are signed.
Legal
- Providing legal advice during and outside of meetings.
- Managing contractual arrangements with suppliers, retailers and service providers.
- Maintaining current awareness about company law and Labour Law
- Maintaining and managing a database of contracts.
- Tracking all contracts (leases, head leases, supply contracts, maintenance agreements, DMRE licenses, tenure agreements) and report to management timeously on any future action required.
- Monitoring competitor non-compliance trends and reporting to regulatory bodies
Administration
- Assist with legal administration like filing, record-keeping
- Sourcing of documents
- Ad hoc support on matters relating to the legal function in general.
Key Competencies / Skills
- “Governance Body of Knowledge” is extensive and demanding.
- Intellectual rigour–robust participation in board debates
- Boardroom suite presence
- Honest, integrity, trustworthy, and confident
- Respect in corporate community
- Knowledge of current issues (BEE/CSR/IFRS)
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Job Duck is a virtual staffing company that matches candidates to work from home for a single U.S.-based business, in most cases a law firm.
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive remote Legal Assistant to support our legal team with administrative, calendaring, client communication, and document management tasks. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, self-sufficient, and capable of following established procedures with minimal supervision.Job Duck is hiring a virtual
V105 - Legal AssistantJob Duck is a virtual staffing company that matches candidates to work from home for a single U.S.-based business, in most cases a law firm.
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive remote Legal Assistant to support our legal team with administrative, calendaring, client communication, and document management tasks. The ideal candidate will be detail-oriented, self-sufficient, and capable of following established procedures with minimal supervision.Desired degree: Bachelor's Degree in Law or Administrative Degrees with previous Law experience
Schedule:Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM US Eastern Standard Time Zone
Key ResponsibilitiesReception & Phones
Answer and triage all incoming calls professionally and efficiently.
Manage call flow and ensure timely and appropriate follow-up.
Calendaring & Scheduling
Accurately add court dates, deadlines, and meetings to the calendar.
Include travel time and preparation for hearings.
Follow court-specific scheduling protocols, including outreach to judicial assistants and e-filing timelines.
Document & Email Management
Download and save court-filed documents via e-filing links to OneDrive.
Ensure correct titling and storage in appropriate client folders.
Read and process CC’d emails to take informed action independently.
Client Follow-Up
Send reminders for document deadlines and payment responsibilities.
Review uploaded client materials (e.g., bank statements) and identify missing items.
Communicate proactively with clients regarding administrative needs.
Workflow Consistency & SOP Adherence
Apply consistent procedures across similar matters.
Refer to and follow written SOPs without needing reminders.
Execute delegated tasks with attention to detail and minimal instruction.
QualificationsPrior experience of more than 2 years in a legal or administrative support role is preferred.
Strong organisational and communication skills.
Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise effectively.
Familiarity with calendaring systems, OneDrive, and e-filing platforms
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EnglishWe believe that Every Great Person Deserves a Great Job. This position is home-based, allowing you to work from the comfort of your own home. So, take the first step and apply now!
Our application process involves multiple stages, and submitting your application is just the beginning. Every candidate needs to successfully pass each stage to become part of our team.
Please keep an eye on your email and WhatsApp for the next steps, as we'll assign someone to guide you through the application process. Be sure to check your spam folder as well.
Paid Time Off and holiday pay (where applicable).
Annual Bonuses and Referral Bonuses.
100% remote/home-based position.
Full-time, long-term career opportunities.
Professional development and training.
Dedicated team support.
Alignment with our clients' core values.
Documentation:You will need to submit the following documents as part of your application:
A copy of your resume in .DOC format.
Please make sure that all documents are in English, that they do not contain your contact information (ie. email, phone number, physical location, or social media links), or any discussion of your compensation requirements.
Instructions to Apply:To successfully complete your application, follow these steps:
As this is an English-speaking role, kindly make sure that all your documents and application forms are filled out in English before submitting them. Thank you!
1. Start by filling in your contact details and click "Next."
2. Provide your educational and work history, then click "Next."
3. Submit the following documents:
Your resume in .DOC format. The resume must be in English.
4. Agree to our terms of service and click "Next."
5. Review your application, and when you're ready, hit "Submit."
Please make sure that all your documents are in English, that they do not contain your contact information (ie. email, phone number, physical location, or social media links), or any discussion of your compensation requirements.
Please send in only one application for the job you're most interested in. If you're a good fit for other roles, our Recruitment Team will contact you directly. Thank you!
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