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Deliver updated matter file in the matter-management system with attendance notes, client contact history and court/tribunal key dates, bundled court/tribunal papers and secure outbound emails with privilege and confidentiality markings, and conflict-check clearance record or documented escalation when conflicts found.
Workplace context: Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.
Protect client files, legal privilege, settlement discussions, court papers and client-money records from unauthorised access or disclosure. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering perform conflict checks in the conflicts register before matter opening and document the outcome. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering keep matter-management and document-management systems current with attendance notes, key dates and filed documents. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering mark settlement discussions and strategic material as privileged in the document-management system. Escalate client-money issues, undertakings, conflicts, missed deadlines and professional-conduct concerns promptly to authorised legal staff.
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: Can: progress routine client communications, prepare and upload documents, record attendance notes, set and update key dates in the matter-management system, apply confidentiality and privilege markings in document-management, and initiate conflict checks. Must escalate (not approve) to authorised legal staff or the practice/department manager for: any client-money transaction or anomaly; any undertaking or promise to a court or third party; identified conflicts of interest; missed or at-risk court/tribunal deadlines; disclosures affecting legal privilege or matter strategy; suspected professional-conduct breaches; and regulatory queries or court sanctions. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
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Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.
SRA context where applicable. Protect client files, legal privilege, settlement discussions, court papers and client-money records from unauthorised access or disclosure. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering perform conflict checks in the conflicts register before matter opening and document the outcome. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering keep matter-management and document-management systems current with attendance notes, key dates and filed documents.
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Deliver updated matter file in the matter-management system with attendance notes, client contact history and court/tribunal key dates, bundled court/tribunal papers and secure outbound emails with privilege and confidentiality markings, and conflict-check clearance record or documented escalation when conflicts found.
Operate client and matter risk controls. Review conflicts onboarding and engagement evidence. Coordinate claims complaints and insurance information. Maintain policies registers and risk reporting. Escalate breaches trends and unresolved exposure.Builder answers
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Can: progress routine client communications, prepare and upload documents, record attendance notes, set and update key dates in the matter-management system, apply confidentiality and privilege markings in document-management, and initiate conflict checks. Must escalate (not approve) to authorised legal staff or the practice/department manager for: any client-money transaction or anomaly; any undertaking or promise to a court or third party; identified conflicts of interest; missed or at-risk court/tribunal deadlines; disclosures affecting legal privilege or matter strategy; suspected professional-conduct breaches; and regulatory queries or court sanctions.
Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.
Protect client files, legal privilege, settlement discussions, court papers and client-money records from unauthorised access or disclosure.
Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering perform conflict checks in the conflicts register before matter opening and document the outcome.
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Escalate immediately if you detect any unexplained movement, shortage, misallocation or documentation gap in client-money records. Create a client-money incident record in the matter-management system, attach the billing and transaction extracts from accounting, and notify the authorised fee earner and practice/department manager per escalation route.
Do not release until you verify privilege status in the document-management folder. Check privilege markings, the matter file for settlement strategy notes and, if markings are absent or uncertain, escalate to the authorised fee earner or practice/department manager for a privilege determination and documented approval before disclosure.
Only under the firm's conflict authority.
Set prompt claim and circumstance reporting.
Use documented senior approval or refusal.
Capture them without waiting for loss.
Assign business owners with compliance monitoring.
Include themes, incidents, controls, overdue actions and exposure.
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