Legal Secretary

21 hours ago

Blackpool, United Kingdom Barker Booth & Eastwood Limited Full time

Barker Booth and Eastwood Limited are a long established progressive firm of solicitors with a well earned reputation for providing practical legal advice to clients, with authority, imagination and efficiency.

Over the years, our friendly and dedicated team have gained respect both inside and outside the profession, achieving esteem as a ‘caring’ firm offering a personal service to both commercial and private clients.

Our Family Department are currently looking for a a new Legal Assistant to join their long established team

**The successful applicant will require**:

- 3 GCSE passes, equivalent to (C+) including English
- Accurate typing proficiency with speed up to 50-80 wpm

Legal secretarial experience
- Good English writing skills, including sound spelling capability
- IT and keyboard skills
- Good communication skills, particularly with taking messages and dealing with client enquiries.

**Your key duties will include, but will not be limited to**:

- Preparing correspondence and documents through digital dictation.
- Filing activities, which will include daily filing and the opening, closing and retrieval of client files.
- Preparing letters and enclosures for dispatch.
- Making appointments, arranging meetings and maintaining an up to date diary.
- Providing support to other secretaries as required.
- Attending to clients both in person and on the telephone, in a professional and friendly manner, in keeping with the firm’s standards for client care.
- Undertaking any specific training when required to do so and overall to have a responsibility towards self-development.
- Ensuring the confidentiality of all the firm’s and clients documentation and information.

This is a permanent full time position, Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm.

**You will benefit from**:

- A competitive salary
- Company pension scheme
- Christmas closure
- Discounted legal services and client introduction scheme
- Bi-annual companywide social functions

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

**Benefits**:

- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Blackpool, FY4 1DW: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (required)

**Experience**:

- Secretarial: 1 year (required)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Personal Injury
Expected start date: 07/10/2024

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