Michelle, having recently joined the firm, has quickly become a key member of the secretarial and reception team.

When you telephone the firm she will often be the person you talk to first.

Naomi and Amy are legal assistants with the firm and fulfil the crucial role of supporting the firm's teams of professional lawyers. You will often speak to them when your lawyer is, for example, away from the office or interviewing clients.

As they work very closely with your lawyer, they are well placed to assist you by taking and passing on your queries.

Within their support role as paralegals, they have the responsibility for organisation and data entry, allowing full legal work to be conducted by your lawyer. They also assist our professional teams by conducting attendances with our clients where required.

We at Atkins Law are committed to encouraging those with an eye to a career in the law with real work experience. Having run traditional one or two week “work experience” programmes, we felt that these could not allow a sufficiently in depth experience of working within a law firm. Atkins Law therefore does not take part in standard work experience schemes. However, we firmly believe that pre university experience is vital and in place of the one to two week sessions we created a part time Systems Support post some years ago. This scheme has been extremely successful, and none of our work experience “graduates” has failed to win a place to study law at good Universities. The intensive training and the subsequent work conducted allows students to gain a far deeper understanding of a greater range of the administrative work that must be completed for quality client work to be conducted. We believe that these one to two years of experience help our support staff to be more successful at University, and subsequently to be far better lawyers.
Later, and where vacancies are available, our senior Support Administrators have the opportunity to be trained into part time posts as Legal Assistants to the Case Managers. This latter role includes a range of administrative and client care responsibilities and is of course subject to University timetables and vacation availability.

Tessa is the firm’s chocolate Labrador. She has been with us from puppy stage and is loved by all.

Long standing clients look for her on arrival and she remembers everyone. You are most likely to get a lick in welcome when you visit the firm.