Legal Secretary

4 weeks ago

Maidstone, United Kingdom Brachers LLP Full time
We are looking for a Legal Secretary to support our renowned Family team in our Maidstone office.
This is a full-time role, Monday – Friday with hybrid working options available if required. Our hybrid working practice is designed to help you achieve the right balance between working in the office and working from home, whilst ensuring that our clients’ and firms’ needs are met. Although arrangements may vary from role to role, collaboration and team work are essential to the firm’s ethos, therefore, we aim for you to spend at least 60% of your time in the office.
Our Family team deal with mid to high level family law matters, complex financial cases, pre and post nuptial agreement, domestic violence issues and children matters. The team additionally assist with RSPCA matters. As a Legal Secretary, you will undertake a variety of important tasks including, but not limited to:
* Building relationships with clients and other solicitors/barrister’s clerks in writing and over the phone
* Diary management for allocated legal advisors
* Arranging meetings / appointments – including booking meeting rooms and preparing documents ahead of the meeting
* Using the team’s precedents, copy typing or audio / digital dictation
* Ensuring electronic files are kept up-to-date
* Opening and closing / archiving files
* Attending team, and training meetings as required
The team currently consists of 3 other support staff and 9 legal advisors, including Partners, Associates, Solicitors, Legal Executives and Paralegals. You will be expected to work in a team alongside fellow support staff, as well as independently assisting with a range of interesting work.
Why Brachers?
The role would suit an experienced legal secretary, with experience in the family legal environment. You will have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with a professional telephone manner and be able to demonstrate high attention to detail.
You will need to be comfortable working with various IT systems, however training will be provided, and have strong numeracy skills with an ability to understand financial ledgers. This is a busy, high performing team who work to short notice deadlines, therefore you must be adept at managing various tasks at once whilst also being able to prioritise and use your initiative when required. Due to the nature of the work the team is involved in, you will need to understand and demonstrate discretion and confidentiality in your work.
Whilst, you will have allocated fee earners, our secretaries work closely as a team and therefore you must be comfortable communicating and working with others to manage workloads.
Why Brachers?
We’ve been delivering legal services for over 125 years and we’re passionate about enriching people’s lives with collaborative and client-focused legal support. We believe in empowering the people we work with to succeed, combining our legal expertise with innovation and great communication to achieve the right result and deliver on our promise, to be ‘with you all the way’.
This promise also extends to the wider communities we serve, as part of our belief in making a positive difference to our local area. That’s why, alongside our work with our clients, we focus on charitable giving, minimising environmental impact and fostering diversity and inclusion to contribute to a more sustainable future for our firm and our community.
Achieving our vision and ambition comes down to our people and at Brachers you’ll find people with drive and ideas underpinned by impressive skills and expertise, who see opportunity in challenge, embrace change and are committed to delivering the best service. We have an open, supportive and friendly culture, where collaboration and innovation are encouraged and where people feel happy. This is endorsed by feedback from our staff, which informed our accreditation by employee engagement specialist, Best Companies, as an ‘outstanding’ place to work.
We value the contribution each person makes to our firm and in return we invest in their professional and personal development so that they can progress and have a rewarding and interesting career. We’re proud to have created a workplace where our people are given the right balance of support and autonomy to take initiative, make decisions and take ownership of their career journey.
Alongside this, we offer a range of benefits, including a competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus scheme, annual salary reviews, hybrid working, pension, up to 27 days holiday per year, a paid volunteering day (in addition to holiday), life assurance, private medical insurance, group income protection, staff discounts, social events and much more

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