Legal Secretary

3 days ago


Bristol, United Kingdom Yolk Recruitment Ltd Full time

**Legal Secretary
**Bristol - Competitive Salary
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join a top tier, international law firm with offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris and many others.
This firm has an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In the Legal 500 UK 2021 the firm received top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas and 58 Lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual’rankings.
The role is predominately office based with some potential for home working. This is a really exciting opportunity for someone looking to develop a career as a Legal Secretary within a supportive team.**This is what you'll be doing**
As a Legal Secretary you will be working with the Operations hub supporting the secretarial team.
- Preparing correspondence and documents from digital dictation alongside proofreading speech recognition dictation
- Answering/making telephone calls
- Managing the case management system
- Keeping case files organised and logical
- Preparing documentation bundles and use of e-bundling software
- Setting up of new files/archiving of files
- Filing, photocopying, scanning and faxing
- Checking of notification in-boxes and/or homeworker in-boxes
- Copying disks
- Use of encryption software
- Assisting with the planning and booking of travel arrangements
- Assisting lawyers with admin tasks e.g. expenses, diarising meetings etc.
- Booking client meetings
- Assisting with ad-hoc business development and communications activities to include but not limited to producing branded presentations and team sheets in PowerPoint, mail merges in Word, spreadsheets in Excel, client contact reports, printing and collatingdelegate packs and possible meeting and greeting of delegates
- An understanding of financial administration
- Ensuring client contact information is kept up to date and data is accurate
- Assisting the team to work electronically and maintain a paperless environment
- Helping to maintain a clean office and clear desk
- Working knowledge of our computer systems and packages e.g. Word, Excel and PowerPoint and bespoke packages
- Supporting on cost-saving initiatives such as cheaper travel options and split tickets
- Regularly liaising with lawyers within the team and STL to keep them updated as to workflows
- Ensure lawyers are updated in relation to deadlines for work
- Share knowledge within the team relating to any changes within external client set ups e.g. client contacts leaving/joining the client
- Advising Accounts/IT of any change of address/telephone numbers/change of name of any external client so that databases are updated

**This is what you'll bring to the Team
**You will have experience working as a legal secretary, and will also ideally have experience of some of the following:

- Audio typing
- Confident in supporting a large team of people
- Minimum 5 GCSE’s including C in English and Maths or equivalent
- A secretarial NVQ or equivalent
- Must have strong IT skills
- Ability to prioritise and multitask
- Excellent eye to detail
- Ability to communicate clearly and in writing
- Team orientated and flexible can do attitude
- Previous experience within personal injury/ litigation / conveyancing / Wills and probate desirable

**This is what you'll get in return**
These are a few of the benefits you will get in return:

- Salary that is higher than the market average
- 24 days annual leave that increases with service
- Pension contribution
- Group income protection
- Life assurance
- Wellbeing hub
- Voluntary benefits
- Private medical insurance
- And more

**Are you interested in this position?



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