Family Legal Secretary

1 week ago

Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom Brachers LLP Full time
  • Are you an experienced Legal Secretary, looking for a new challenge in Family law?
  • Are you interested in joining an established Family team, dealing with mid to high worth financial remedy cases and complex children work?
  • Do you want to join a leading regional firm, who has the backing of a national group, dedicated to delivering comprehensive legal support and committed to ambitious growth?
  • Do you like the sound of a highly competitive benefits package, hybrid working opportunities, social events and much more?

Clients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on our personal approach to handling cases. This role will give you the opportunity to undertake great quality work and develop your career within a highly reputable legal practice. We're looking for an experienced legal secretary, ideally with experience in the family legal environment.

Our 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 and attending team, and training meetings as required.

The team currently consists of 4 other support staff and 10 legal advisors, including Partners, Associates, Solicitors, Legal Executives and Paralegals. The team is led by Mei-Ling McNab and Mark Leeson, but you will be expected to work in a team alongside fellow support staff, as well as independently, assisting with a range of interesting work.

You should 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.

Why join Brachers?

At Brachers, our vision and ambition are driven by our people. You'll find individuals at our firm with impressive skills and expertise, who are full of drive and ideas. We see opportunities in challenges, embrace change, and are committed to delivering the best service, reflected in our recognition in The Times 'Best Law Firms List 2025'. We have an open, supportive, and friendly culture where collaboration and innovation thrive, and where people feel happy. This is endorsed by feedback from our staff, which led to our accreditation by employee engagement specialist, Best Companies, as an 'outstanding' place to work and a 'Top 10 Law Firm to Work For'.

In 2025, we became part of Lawfront, a national group of leading regional law firms dedicated to delivering comprehensive legal support to individuals and businesses nationwide. With a defined vision and plan for growth, we have created a culture of working together to achieve. We are looking to recruit people with ambition, drive and a can-do attitude to be part of our journey.

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