Legal Secretary
1 week ago
Wedlake Bell's highly regarded Real Estate group are looking to hire a Legal Secretary to cover a 9-12 month maternity leave with responsibilities across the Banking and Property Litigation teams.
The Real Estate Group at Wedlake Bell consists of 5 Sub-Groups: Commercial property (Core); Commercial Property(Housebuilders); Construction; Property Litigation; and Banking.
This maternity cover role will be working solely with the Property Litigation and Banking sub-groups, providing full secretarial services to the partners, fee earners and trainees.
The role has additional support from our Document Production team and the wider secretarial team within the Real Estate Group.
**Key role duties**:
- Administrative support to the head of each team
- Audio typing
- Dealing with incoming post
- Opening files, including inputting client information, other parties, etc.
- Preparing client care letters, including link to Thirdfort
- Preparing legal documentation such as deeds of release
- Generally assisting with preparation of other documents required for litigation matters including statements of costs
- Amending legal documents as instructed
- Maintaining an effective filing system
- Answering telephone calls from solicitors and clients
- Carrying out checks at Companies House and HM Land Registry
- Attending clients for the signature of documents via Docusign
- Generally liaising with Accounts team
- Assisting with billing
- Submitting expense forms
- Sending bills to clients
- Outstanding time management
- Excellent typing skills
- Knowledge of legal terminology
- Strong attention to detail
- Experience with Microsoft Office and an ability to work with legal technology, transcription software, etc.
- Proficiency in English
- Capacity to communicate with a diverse range of people
- A spirit of co-operation and a positive “can-do” attitude
- A willingness to serve client needs with discretion and respect for client confidentiality
- Professional telephone manner and the ability to take messages effectively
- Commitment to the success of the firm
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