Family Secretary

Location: Barnsley

**Salary**: DOE

Reference: 1004960

**Description**:
Sue Ross Legal are recruiting for a Legal Secretary on behalf of an established law firm with offices across South Yorkshire.

As a Legal Secretary, you will provide crucial administrative and secretarial support to the busy family department. This is a full time, permanent position offering an excellent opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team which is increasingly growing due to its success.

The job holder will be expected to carry out all aspects of administration support to the busy fee earners. Duties will include;
- Performing a wide range of administrative tasks, including managing phone calls, maintaining accurate diary systems, scheduling appointments, coordinating meetings, and maintaining an organized filing system.
- Setting up new files
- Ensuring all files are kept up to date.
- Seeing new clients in person to take details, assessing for legal help, and completing the legal help forms accurately, where appropriate/required by the team.
- Preparing and formatting legal documents.
- Closing and sending files for archiving promptly
- Providing an effective internal/external postal service for the fee earners in the office

Applicants must have previous experience of working in a secretarial/administrative position and ideally have experience of using digital dictation within a legal setting.

For more information about the above vacancy or for a confidential chat about our other vacancies throughout Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, the Northwest and the North East, please send your details to us and one of our dedicated legal consultants will contact you.

May we take this opportunity to thank you for expressing an interest in one of our roles and wish you the very best in your search for employment.