Legal Secretary

**Legal Secretary**

We are a dynamic, award-winning, multi-office practice which provides a comprehensive range of legal services to clients across the North West and UK.

Recognising that employees are our greatest asset, we invest in training and development programmes and provide a working environment which is both supportive and challenging. Blending traditional values of personal and cost-effective advice with a modern and fresh approach we have achieved numerous accreditations and awards. Enjoying continual success and growth we are highly regarded within the legal market.

**Responsibilities**

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and hard-working private client legal secretary to work from our Darwen office.

The prime role of the legal secretary is to provide direct support to his/her principal to enable them to operate at optimum efficiency. This will include but will not be limited to the key responsibilities given below. The legal secretary is expected to use a high degree of self-management and initiative.
- Prepare correspondence and documents through audio-typing and word processing.
- Administer filing which will include daily filing and the opening, closing, storage and retrieval of client files in accordance with the detailed procedures contained in the office manual.
- Prepare mail and enclosures for dispatch.
- Arrange for all copying to be done, in person if the office assistant is not available to undertake the task.
- Make appointments, arrange meetings and to maintain an up to date diary for his/her principal.
- Provide support to other secretaries as required.
- Provide guidance to junior and temporary secretaries when required to do so.
- Attend clients both in person and on the telephone and to provide such support in a professional and friendly manner in keeping with the firm’s standards for client care.
- Undertake any specific training when required to do so and overall to have a responsibility towards self-development.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: From £21,500.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Darwen, BB3 2RL: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: PC1