Private Client Legal Secretary

2 weeks ago


Bury St Edmunds, United Kingdom Additional Resources Ltd Full time

**Private Client Legal Secretary**

**Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk**

**Salary: £27,000 - £29,000 DOE**

**Full time: 9months Maternity Cover**

**The Client**:
This company has been providing legal services from their offices in Bury St Edmunds for more than 130 years. The firm offers a broad range of legal advice to individuals and companies in respect of a large range of legal services both nationally and internationally.Their aim is to ensure clients get to where they want to be in the most straightforward manner.

**The Private Client Team**:
The Private Client team has a wide range of skills and expertise. The team is made up of qualified Solicitors, Chartered Tax Advisors, Trust and Estate Practitioners and Tax Technicians. The team provides a full and comprehensive legal service and have anumber of long-standing lawyers who have acted for many families for decades, across the generations. The Legal 500 describes the Private Client team as “first-class, always accessible, quick and efficient”.

**The Role**:
**Your duties will be varied but will include**:

- Transcription and production of correspondence/documentation requested by the fee earners via digital dictation and Outlook, to include amending and formatting where necessary.
- To open/close files on instructions from the fee earners.
- Producing the invoices for monthly billing.
- To attend to clients both on the telephone and in person.
- To take and record accurately any messages and pass on the same to the appropriate person without unnecessary delay.
- Scanning in of daily post for the department (rota basis)
- To ensure all items of outgoing post are signed and received by Admin by 5pm each evening.
- To assist with cover for other secretaries (within the firm generally) when they are on holiday or sick.
- To make appointments, arrange meetings and maintain an up-to-date diary for their fee earners.
- Attending clients with a fee earner to witness Wills and other documents as required.
- To undertake any other duties which may be allocated, such as assisting with Powerpoint Presentations.
- To ensure the confidentiality of all client documentation and/or information.

**Desired skills and experience**:

- The ability to work accurately, with good attention to detail
- The ability to type at 60 WPM
- Good administration and Microsoft Office skills
- The ability to work as part of a team
- Strong time management and organisational skills
- Excellent communication skills
- The ability to work to deadlines
- Experience of working in an office environment
- A good level of education, ideally to include GCSEs (or equivalent) in English and Maths
- A professional and friendly demeanour

**Benefits**:

- Monday - Friday 9am-530pm
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Personal pension scheme
- Group life assurance

**_Additional Resources Ltd is an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003._



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