Legal PA services

Herbert Smith is a market-leading international law firm, attracting some of the most talented people in the market, as well as leading clients and transactions. It’s a stimulating and fast-moving environment, where you will be supporting the industry’s top lawyers who are recognised as being at the cutting edge of business development work and legal thinking.

A valued role
At Herbert Smith we provide our lawyers and their clients with outstanding legal PA services and recognise the valuable and professional contribution that secretaries make to the firm.

The Legal PA services group employs people across a wide spectrum of roles within the firm, both legal and non-legal, document specialists to personal and executive assistants and management roles. We recruit secretaries of the highest calibre, both with and without legal experience.

Clear career progression
The legal PA services department benefits from a unique development programme, which ensures you have clear and transparent progression and development routes. From the minute you join, this programme provides you with training and development in a wide variety of essential skills.

We reward contribution, flexibility, initiative, and teamwork and believe in building upon and developing existing expertise, whether this is in business, organisational or technical skills. You will have the opportunity to develop additional skills by working across many areas of the firm, such as business development, human resources and accounts and management information.

Dynamic industry
The legal sector is going through huge and rapid change. Working for an international law firm is now more exciting than ever. Herbert Smith can offer you a truly rewarding career working for one of the world’s elite law firms.