Legal Assistant - Child Protection

RWK Goodman • Bath, England • Posted July 10, 2026

Position Overview

We are currently recruiting for a Legal Assistant to join our Child Protection / Care Proceedings team within the Family department. You will provide an efficient and effective administrative support to the team in which you work, enabling the team / department to function effectively and achieve its objectives. To ensure that work done by the team / department complies with internal quality standards and external requirements.

Duties will include:

Personalised Client Service

  • Manage an administrative workload under the guidance of fee earners
  • Provide administrative support to fee earners including file-opening, telephone management, document production (incl. audio-typing, filing/ archiving, photocopying, email management, legal aid applications, online portal management and dealing with post)
  • Draft documents and bills, under supervision, using appropriate precedents and templates to accurately reflect fee earner instructions