Marketing Assistant

Peters & Peters is a specialist law firm focused on heavyweight disputes and renowned for our work in business crime and civil litigation with an impressive, global client base. Clients come to us in serious situations, where reputation, livelihood and liberty are at risk.

Our work is often very high profile, and our clients include multinational corporations, financial institutions, governments and investors. We are recognised by the legal directories as a leading name in financial and business crime, investigations and civil fraud. We recently won the Commercial Set of the Year award at the Chambers and Partners UK Awards 2025 and have been shortlisted for Disputes Team of the Year award at the Lawyer Awards 2025.

We have a strong commitment to justice, which we express not just in our work for our clients but also in our respect for our people and community. We our pride ourselves on the quality of our people, our friendly, no-nonsense culture and the way we champion diversity and inclusion.

The Marketing and Business Development department is undergoing an exciting phase of evolution and we are now looking to bolster the team with the addition of a new Marketing Assistant who can provide support to the growing Marketing and Business Development team.

The role 

The Marketing Assistant will report to the Head of Marketing and Business Development and will provide general support for our marketing and business development team. This new and exciting role will present a fantastic opportunity for someone who has an interest in the corporate or legal world and who may be interested in pursuing a career in marketing and business development. Duties will vary day to day depending on business need but, over time, the individual is likely to take on specific responsibility for regular and more scheduled tasks, developing their communication, organisation, IT and administration skills. Responsibilities will include:

• Assistance compiling and cross-referencing legal directory submissions.
• Reviewing, formatting and drafting documents and emails.
• Agenda preparation and minute taking.
• Events preparation including name badges and promotional materials.
• Attendance of firm events to assist with registration and greeting clients.
• Data management including keeping contact lists up to date.
• Research and produce the firm’s monthly newsletter in collaboration with colleagues.
• Working with the PAs to book meetings and assist with firm-wide diary management.
• Diary management of the marketing and business development team.
• Meeting management and room bookings.
• Venue research for events.
• Supporting the events committee on internal P&P events.
• Assistance on the production of social media posts for the firm LinkedIn account.
• Maintain key resources including information held on the internal intranet site.
• Collate website traffic statistics and attendance statistics following events and thought leadership publications.
• Carry out competitor analysis on an ad-hoc basis.
• Provide general assistance to the Head of Marketing and Business Development, and the marketing team.

The person

We ideally require the following qualities:

• Effective organisational skills.
• Strong time management skills and the ability to juggle a busy and changing workload.
• Very good verbal and written communications skills.
• Good IT skills, including proficiency in Microsoft applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise tasks and work to deadlines.
• A proactive and positive approach.
• Grade A - C in GCSE Maths and English.

Additional information

The salary is dependent on experience, and we offer a range of benefits including 25 days annual leave (plus a day off over Christmas and for your birthday and the option to buy or sell up to 3 days per year); pension; income protection; life assurance; private health insurance; long service awards; health screening; a wellbeing allowance and an employee assistance programme.

Peters & Peters is also committed to diversity and inclusion. Should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist you during the recruitment process please let us know.