Legal Secretary

4 months ago

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom CLD Recruitment Full time

My client is a leading residential development legal team in the country acting for the top UK housebuilders, institutional landowners. My client has 8 offices across England, operates within a Property Platform. This Platform comprises of lawyers, surveyors, engineers, architects, accountants and support staff who provide a unique cross-disciplinary service delivery to our wider property client base.

**Duties**:

- Provide support to Fee Earners and Partners across the Newcastle and Leeds Residential Development teams.
- Working with a leading Residential Development Land team who act on a variety of large-scale land matters such as acquisitions, disposals, strategic land options and long-term development projects.
- Working closely with a small number of fee earners as opposed to being part of a national pool of secretaries.
- Proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless secretarial support service.
- Organise and maintain legal files and documents.
- Manage incoming and outgoing correspondence.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.

Skills Required:

- Previous legal secretarial experience
- Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is essential.
- First class communication skills both written and verbal.
- Excellent levels of accuracy.
- Initiative to learn and ability to self-motivate.
- Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines with the ability to remain calm.
- Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills.
- Always demonstrate discretion and the ability to maintain absolute confidentiality at all times.
- IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.

**Benefits**:

- A wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career.
- My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days),
- Cycle to work,
- Critical illness benefit.
- Employee assistance programme.
- Group personal pension.
- Health care.
- Season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent).
- Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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