Employment Legal Secretary

2 weeks ago


Reading, United Kingdom Boyes Turner Full time

**Role Description**:
We have a great opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join our fast paced but friendly Employment team based in Reading. You will be responsible for providing full support to our Fee Earners as well as delivering an excellent service to both internal and external stakeholders.-
**Experience/ Attributes required**:
**Essential Skills**
- 1 + years’ experience working in an administrative role.
- Work effectively in a team and on your own.
- Possess outstanding interpersonal and communication (verbal & written) skills.
- Exceptional prioritising/organisational skills
- Good attention to detail and the ability to use your initiative.
- Strong ability to self-manage a large workload in a busy team.
- Extensive experience in Outlook, Microsoft Word, Power Point & Excel
- Experience with dealing with financial and client account queries.

**Desirable Skills**
- Employment experience not essential but would be advantageous.
- Previous Legal Secretary or Legal PA experience
- Ideally experience in case management systems
- Excellent knowledge of Elite accounts package

**Work type**:

- Producing accurate documentation, reports and correspondence following standard office practices and precedents
- Supporting the team by carrying out all secretarial tasks and help, when necessary, with all administrative tasks
- Managing diaries of fee earners as required and coordinating meeting logistics.
- Inserting and amending key court dates
- Proof reading and formatting presentations
- Producing billing guides and timecards
- Sending invoices and liaising with clients in regards to queries
- Producing spreadsheets as required to accompany invoices; time modify; monitor disbursements and arrange for payment to third party suppliers as necessary; monitor debtors list & NWH billing.

**Benefits**:
**Contractual Benefits**
- 25 days annual leave,
- Pension scheme with a 4% employer contribution
- Life Assurance - 5 x final salary
- Shopping discounts and Medicash
- Discretionary bonus scheme

**Non Contractual Benefits**
- Travel season ticket loan scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Weekly wellbeing hour
- Birthday off
- 1 x 8 hour charity day
- Bring your dog to work

**Team structure**:

- 3 x Partners
- 1 x Director
- 3 x Senior Associates
- 1 x Head of Immigration
- 2 x Solicitors
- 1 x Paralegal
- 1 x Legal Executive
- 1 x Trainee Solicitor
- 4 x Secretaries

**Other information**:
Boyes Turner’s Employment team is ranked in Tier 1 by Legal 500. Its partners are recognized as experts in their field. The Group is innovative and seeking to find ways of developing its offering and services to clients harnessing all modern technologies.
- We offer excellent working conditions and a modern, forward thinking, friendly team.- We have been voted as the leading UK regional law firm to work for in the South East by the Best Company Survey published by the Sunday Times in 2006 and best law firm to work for in the South East for three years in a row.



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