Legal Secretary
1 week ago
**Private Client Legal Secretary**
**Permanent**
Location: Shirley/Sheldon
Hours of work: 9.00am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday (37.5 hours)
**Salary**: £22,000-£25,000
**Summary**:
We have an exciting new opportunity for a legal secretary to join an established legal 500 firm in their expanding private client team on a full-time permanent basis working with a large team of legal experts that specialise in the various aspects of corporate,commercial, and private law.
**Responsibilities**:
Diary management responsibilities including making appointments, organising meetings.
Proactive client liaison including take messages, pass on information and deal with simple queries.
Work collaboratively with other secretarial support to provide a responsive and professional secretarial support service to fee earners and clients.
Management and co-ordination of the fee earners' billing and financial requirements.
Audio and copy typing of legal documentation and correspondence to a high standard.
Manage the production of all documents (even those not typed personally) from initiation to delivery back to the relevant fee earner.
Organising conference or meetings calls on behalf of the fee earner.
Preparing client engagement/assignment letters, conflict, and money laundering checks with direction from the fee earner.
Dealing with and filing Wills and forms i.e., HMRC.
Responsible for copying, scanning, faxing required by fee earners, including the preparation of files or bundles.
Experienced Legal Secretary/PA with a minimum of 3 years' experience within a private client team is essential.
Must possess excellent diary management, organisation, and prioritisation skills.
Must be able to communicate effectively and build good relationships with clients and staff within the firm.
Must work well as part of a team.
Must be a competent, fast, and accurate typist.
Must be competent at producing legal documents to a high standard including using track changes to amend documents.
Professional telephone manner and the ability to accurately record and pass on messages.
Sound technical skills in the following areas:
Microsoft Office IT skills - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
Proven document or case management skills.
Proven experience of using a legal computerised finance system.
Minimum typing speed of 65 wpm with a good level of accuracy.
**Benefits**:
Working for an extremely well-established legal firm - in operation for over 250 years
Group Stakeholder Pension Scheme with Scottish Widows. Access to a tax efficient salary sacrifice option
Healthcare plan - Financial assistance towards a range of healthcare including optical, dental and counselling
25 days holiday (2 to be taken at Christmas/New Year) plus public holidays
Flexible holiday purchase / sale scheme
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