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About Beale & Co

Beale & Co provides specialist legal advice to the construction and insurance sectors. With lawyers spread across offices in London, Bristol, Glasgow, Dublin, Dubai and Toronto, the Firm has a long track record in successfully acting for clients all over the world. Our teams handle complex international arbitration; professional indemnity disputes; coverage; claims handling; corporate and commercial and contracts and projects advisory matters, with an emphasis on finding the best possible legal and commercial solutions to meet our clients’ needs.

Key Requirements:

The role will mainly focus on Billing with some E-Billing involved in the role.

Billing

Assisting with raising bills, write-off time and disbursements and to close files and ensure instructions are carried out.

• Using the firms accounting package to make general matter, invoice or credit note inquiries.
• Allocating VAT as applicable.
• Raising bills, draft bills and finalising bills on the firms accounting package.

Also, assisting with the submission of e-bills ensuring an accurate record of progress and ensuring deadlines are met in relation to appeals.

Experience

Our Revenue Assistant will demonstrate the below key skills and experience:

• Having relevant experience in Billing and E-Billing would be an advantage, however not essential as full training will be provided.

Skills:

• Excellent numerical accuracy skills.
• Excellent attention to detail skills.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage own workload.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate confidently at all levels.
• Professional, persuasive and influential with a can-do attitude.
• Well organised with the ability to prioritise effectively.
• Ability to challenge.
• Collaborative and is a team player.
• Ability to relate impact of own role to wider firm

About Beale & Co

Beale & Co provides specialist legal advice to the construction and insurance sectors. With lawyers spread across offices in London, Bristol, Glasgow, Dublin, Dubai and Toronto, the Firm has a long track record in successfully acting for clients all over the world. Our teams handle complex international arbitration; professional indemnity disputes; coverage; claims handling; corporate and commercial and contracts and projects advisory matters, with an emphasis on finding the best possible legal and commercial solutions to meet our clients’ needs.

Key Requirements:

• Provide support to all functions of the Accounts team on a daily basis, and report into the Head of Accounts when required on any issues.
• Day to day supervision of the Accounts teams, delegating appropriate
• Assist with daily postings where required and cover when team members are absent or at busy intervals.
• Deal with general accounts queries and audit requests as required.
• Responsible for the monthly reconciliation of all Client Office and Business No Notice bank accounts, presenting a summary of all reconciliations to the Accounts
• Ensure that Balance Summary checks are performed, and that the VAT summary balances on a weekly
• Check on a weekly basis that client to office transfers have been actioned, and that professional disbursements have been paid out appropriately.
• In conjunction with the Revenue Supervisor, ensure that all monthly reports are accurate, balance and saved appropriately before the Head of Accounts runs month end.
• Propose system and process improvement solutions to the Head of Accounts, to continuously improve efficiency and effectiveness within the accounts
• Assist the Head of Accounts with maintaining an internal handbook of all accounting processes and procedures for use by the
• Maintain records and implement procedures to ensure full compliance with the Solicitors Accounts Rules’ (SARs). Report every breach to the Head of Accounts and
• Ensure that all members of the team are trained appropriately to perform all tasks accurately and efficiently. Ensure that team members are encouraged to develop their skills within the department.
• Assist the Firm’s Auditors, Head of Accounts and COO with the year end audit, including producing information and dealing with
• Be responsible for bringing to the attention of the Head of Accounts and COO any problems when dealing with the firms’
• Work in conjunction with the Revenue Supervisor when required, and assist the Head of Accounts during the Revenue Supervisors absence.
• On a quarterly basis prepare the client interest schedule. Calculate interest to split beneficiaries on matters where appropriate.
• Ensure that any client funds held that need to be donated to the SRA are done so in accordance with the SAR’s.
• Review funds held in the firm’s entire client accounts to ensure that they are held correctly and where necessary, return funds to clients. Produce a report for the Head of Accounts, showing balances held and the reason why the firm continues to hold these
• On a monthly basis, review unbilled disbursements and expenses and report to the Head of Accounts any issues.
• On a monthly basis, check all pro forma VAT has been converted correctly.
• In conjunction with the Revenue supervisor, maintain the firms rates when required.
• Responsible for supplying any management information to clients as

Experience

Our Accounts Supervisor will demonstrate the below key skills and experience:

• Previous demonstrable and relevant experience as an Accounts Supervisor within a law firm or legal business.
• Previous demonstrable and relevant experience of the tasks expected of the Accounts teams.
• Must be both capable of performing these tasks and of training others to complete
• Previous demonstrable and relevant experience of supervising a
• Excellent knowledge of the Solicitors Accounts Rules (SAR’s).
• Excellent numerical accuracy
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage own
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate confidently at all

Skills

• Demonstrable experience of dealing with insurer clients.
• Advanced Excel IT
• Demonstrable and relevant experience in training others to undertake an accounts role.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Trainee Solicitor to join our team in Glasgow in September 2026.

We are a specialist Professional Indemnity and Construction practice, with offices in Glasgow, Bristol, London, Dublin, Dubai and Toronto. The successful candidate will undertake their traineeship working alongside our highly rated Professional Indemnity and Construction teams in Glasgow

The Professional Indemnity team specialise in defending Solicitors, Accountants, Insurance Brokers, Architects, Engineers, D&B Contractors and their Insurers when they face allegations of negligence.

The Construction team specialise in contentious construction disputes with experience in working on high profile building and infrastructure projects across the UK for a mix of contractors, developers and construction professionals.

The work is challenging and interesting and both teams are highly supportive and collaborative.

The successful candidate must have completed the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice ahead of starting with us in September 2026 and be in a position to evidence this.

In the first instance, interested candidates should send a full CV and a supporting statement covering their interest in applying for the role and their readiness to take up the position to HRdept@beale-law.com by Friday 16 January 2026.

The Role

You will be responsible for:

• Advising professional clients and their insurers on case strategy, claim and cost reserves and insurance coverage matters.
• Handling high value and complex claims from policy response to conclusion.
• Preparing reports for Insurers with the ability to explain and advise succinctly on difficult and complex areas.
• Managing the Insurer/Insured relationship, being aware of potential conflicts.
• Monitoring critical dates and ensuring compliance with Insurer service level agreements.
• Preparing for Court cases at all levels.
• ADR, including negotiation and mediation.
• Adjudication.
• Identifying and advancing business development opportunities.
• The supervision of less experienced members of the team.

Essential Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will, therefore, have a minimum of 8 years PQE, ideally in Professional Indemnity, however we will consider candidates with Litigation experience and who display excellent legal ability and initiative, strong technical skills as well as confidence in managing and prioritising a full and varied caseload. You will be a strong communicator with good attention to detail.

In addition, you will have excellent academics and a willingness to learn and develop your legal knowledge.

In return, you will benefit from being part of an organisation that is genuinely committed to its people.

Our market leading team has an extensive portfolio of work and has advised on some of the biggest and most challenging and innovative projects across the globe. If you have experience of advising on procurement routes, engineering and construction documentation, joint venture agreements, PFI and PPP documentation and alliance agreements, please get in touch.

The team are proud to act for some of the foremost companies in this sector. We advise construction professionals, contractors, employers, operators, investors and their insurers, across a wide range of industry sectors, providing all aspects of project advice.

We’re looking for experience of advising on procurement routes, engineering and construction documentation (including consultants’ appointments, building contracts, collateral warranties, third party rights and security documentation), joint venture agreements, PFI and PPP documentation, alliance agreements etc. The role would suite those with private practice and/or in house experience.

We have an extensive portfolio of international work. Experience of advising on projects internationally, is preferred but is not essential. Ideally the candidates will have contacts within the construction industry to develop into clients.