Legal Secretary

3 days ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Express Solicitors Full time

Express Solicitors are a top 200 Law firm that specialises in personal injury. We cover every area of personal injury including public liability, occupier’s liability, road traffic accidents, employer’s liability, industrial disease, serious injuries and clinical negligence matters. At Express, we pride ourselves in the work we do helping injured people.

We are Law Society accredited and are a Legal 500 Leading Firm for both Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence. Six of our Partners are members of the Law Society Specialist Personal Injury Panel.

**Role**

We are now looking for a new talented legal secretary to join our cooperative team as we continue to grow and expand. The role will be working within a close pool of secretaries, working together to support our fee earners with audio typing and the preparation of documents and correspondence. Working as a legal secretary you will also use your excellent interpersonal skills in liaising directly with clients and third parties. Our legal secretaries also get involved with diary management and of course filing

**Person Specific**
- It’s really important that you have some experience working as a legal secretary, but we are happy to teach you all about personal injury.
- An excellent command of spelling, punctuation and grammar (Grade C and above at GCSE for English and Maths as a minimum)
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, if you have knowledge of the Proclaim case management system that would be even better.
- Audio typing skills of 65+wpm, ideally with digital dictation experience.
- Ability to prioritise daily workload/good time management skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent customer service skills, including professional and friendly telephone manner.

**About the job**
- Working in a pool of legal secretaries assisting a number of Fee Earners.
- You will be working in one stream of work either road traffic accidents, employers’ liability, occupiers & public liability or clinical negligence.
- Preparing correspondence and documents including pleadings and court bundles.
- Photocopying and scanning documents (with assistance from Administration team if needed).
- Take and make calls to clients and others in a professional and friendly manner.
- Make appointments, arrange meetings and liaise with lawyers, clients, Counsel and others.
- Supporting other secretaries and the administration team as required.
- Helping to update the Proclaim case management system where possible.
- We are heading towards being a paperless office but there still will be some filing.

**Salary, Hours & Benefits**
- Salary dependent on experience.
- 23 days holiday, rising 1 day per year to a max of 26 days, plus bank/public hols. Please note, the office is closed between Christmas and New Year and 3 holidays are reserved for this period.
- 3-holiday buybacks per year after 1 year of service
- Private medical insurance is available after 2 years’ service.
- Death in Service - 2 x salary based on annual salary only - eligibility commences when you join the company.
- Active social committee, the firm pays for trips to e.g. Bowling, Chester Races, Christmas party, Summer Barbecue.
- Active training culture and various groups and events such as Diversity & Inclusion.
- Netball / Football team, 10km Manchester team and more.
- Usual ancillary benefits including Employee Assistance Programme etc.

***Recruitment Process**

Interviews will be conducted by MS Teams, in Office or Telephone and will include scenario-based questioning.

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