Executive Legal Assistant

We are looking for an experienced Executive Legal Assistant for one of the world's pre-eminent law firms, with significant depth and range of resources across five continents.

• Supporting to related partner and lawyers

o   Receiving and screening communications including telephone calls and e-mail messages 

o   Travel Arrangements  

o   Facilitating communication between executive and direct reports

o   Organizing daily/weekly plans and preparing the agenda for the meetings

o   Arranging travel schedule and reservations 

o   Acting as the point of contact and realizing business correspondence with foreign clients & third parties

• Matter Inception / Re-opening a matter if necessary - currency issues or different client.
• Tracking Engagement letters / E-mail correspondence for each matter
• Generating draft invoices / transferring time/ write offs/correcting typos
• Pitching/Capability Statements – Formatting
• Directory submissions (Formatting of the submission)
• Matter capturing (Close follow-up with each department on data entries)
• Interaction (Data entries, data cleansing, data updates)
• Client briefings (Formatting, mailing design)
• Time Entry Assistance
• I-Expenses (entry into GPMS)
• Vacation / Leave Request Form Submissions

• University degree in related areas
• At least 4 years of work experience as an executive top management assistant 
• Excellent coordination, organization, communication and presentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Turkish and English 
• Very good knowledge of MS Office applications
• Proficiency in the use of computer systems and applications for the purposes of report preparation, data analysis and interoffice communication 
• Should be eager to learn, proactive, dynamic, presentable, flexible, open-minded and team-work oriented, result oriented, self-disciplined