Legal Secretary

2 months ago

Maidstone, United Kingdom CV-Library Full time

Legal Secretary – Family Law

Location: Maidstone

Hours: Full time, hybrid option available

Salary: £23,000 - £28,000 per annum DOE

ACS staffing solutions has teamed up with a well-established legal firm in the Maidstone area, to support them with the recruitment of a legal secretary within family law. Experience in family law isn’t necessarily needed, if you have a strong legal secretary background, retraining is an option

The Role

The Family team deal with mid to high level family law matters, complex financial  cases, pre and post nuptial agreement, domestic violence issues and children matters. The team additionally assist with RSPCA matters. As a Legal Secretary, you will undertake a variety of important tasks including, but not limited to:

Building relationships with clients and other solicitors/barrister’s clerks in writing and over the phone
Diary management for allocated legal advisors
Arranging meetings / appointments – including booking meeting rooms and preparing documents ahead of the meeting
Using the team’s precedents, copy typing or audio / digital dictation
Ensuring electronic files are kept up-to-date
Opening and closing / archiving files
Attending team,  and training meetings as required 

The client’s team currently consists of 3 other support staff and 9 legal advisors, including Partners, Associates, Solicitors, Legal Executives and Paralegals. You will be expected to work in a team alongside fellow support staff, as well as independently assisting with a range of interesting work.

About you

The role would suit an experienced legal secretary, with experience in the family legal environment. Strong legal secretaries from other areas of law will also be considered You will have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with a professional telephone manner and be able to demonstrate high attention to detail.

You will need to be comfortable working with various IT systems, however training will be provided, and have strong numeracy skills with an ability to understand financial ledgers. This is a busy, high performing team who work to short notice deadlines, therefore you must be adept at managing various tasks at once whilst also being able to prioritise and use your initiative when required. Due to the nature of the work the team is involved in, you will need to understand and demonstrate discretion and confidentiality in your work.
Whilst, you will have allocated fee earners, our secretaries work closely as a team and therefore you must be comfortable communicating and working with others to manage workloads

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