Clothier Anderson Immigration Lawyers is a medium-sized immigration law firm located on the city fringe in Carlton. We provide high quality specialist immigration and refugee law advice and advocacy.

An opportunity has arisen for a full-time or part-time legal assistant to join our firm. This role will provide quality administrative and paralegal assistance. To be successful in this busy role, you will have excellent time-management and organisational skills, strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. Ideally, you will be familiar with lawyer’s trust accounts including an electronic billing and file management system (preferably Affinity) and past experience in a legal support position within a legal environment.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Assisting in file management, including daily filing
• Diary management, including processing incoming mail and diarising time limits
• Drafting standard letters
• Lodging requests for copies of documents under relevant FOI legislation
• Obtaining instructions and liaising with clients with regard to the provision of documents
• Drafting forms and some correspondence
• Lodging review applications with AAT
• Scanning, compiling and uploading enclosures to submissions/applications
• Arranging the translation of documents and booking interpreters
• Generating client invoices and drafting standard cover emails
• Entering disbursements and credit card payments into Affinity
• Reception relief
• Other administrative tasks, as required

Please apply by submitting a cover letter and your resume via the 'Apply Now' button.