Legal Secretary

Legal Secretary - Company Commercial experience

Salary competititve plus extensive benefits

Permanent contract, hybrid working - location Hertford

Skills, experience, and qualifications for the Legal Secretary:

- To provide secretarial and administrative support within the Company Commercial practice area
- To maintain the highest level of confidentiality always.
- Proactively manage diaries and possess time management skills
- To liaise with clients (and third parties) by correspondence, telephone, or attendance. Answer queries and relay necessary information in a professional and confident manner
- To type a wide range of documents with speed and accuracy and paying attention to detail
- To draft routine correspondence
- To assist in the preparation and proof reading of legal documents
- To assist the other members of the Company Commercial practice area in organising their work effectively
- To build and maintain client relationships
- To carry out any reasonable instruction from the HOPA and other members of the team in a quick efficient manner
- To prepare bills, covering letters and take responsibility for the monitoring and reporting of unpaid bills to fee earners and carry out follow up tasks
- To monitor client ledgers and liaise with fee earners regarding housekeeping matters, including dealing with accounting issues and file closures
- To carry out procedural file reviews
- To maintain the orderly running of client files and update file labels and outlook with key dates as and when necessary
- To participate in practice area meetings
- To comply with the Firm’s file management and file organisation procedures
- To comply with the Firm’s, SRA and the Law Society’s rules about accounting procedures
- To comply with all office procedures and standards
- Under the overall guidance of the relevant team member to assist in dealing with clients’ matters in an efficient manner
- To record messages and attendances and to ensure that the relevant team member receives information in an appropriate and timely manner
- To assist with Seminars if required

About the Legal Secretary:

- Appropriate Secretarial qualifications and/or experience
- Experience and ability to work in a confidential manner
- Ability to multi-task and cope with a busy and varied workload
- Excellent IT skills
- Exemplary level of attention to detail
- Efficient time-management skills
- Efficient, reliable, helpful, and enthusiastic
- Confident, professional, and friendly with the ability to build good working relationships internally and externally
- Initiative, drive and motivation to work at home
- Effective and proactive team worker
- Flexible and adaptable mindset
- ‘Hands-on’ approach
- Meticulous organisational skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent client service skills
- Personable and professional manner
- Honesty and discretion
- Ability to work under pressure and within deadlines
- Ability to problem solve