Legal Secretary

1 week ago

York, United Kingdom Ison Harrison Solicitors Full time

Ison Harrison Solicitors are a leading law firm with a network of 20 offices offering the broadest suite of legal services in the region. We are are also **100% employee owned.**This means our employees can influence the future of our business and play a key part in its success and profitability with an additional financial benefit through our profit sharing scheme - Would you like to join in, influence and benefit from our success?

We are currently recruiting for a legal secretary, based in our York office.

**KEY TASKS**
- Audio-typing.
- Dealing with the branch post and DX.
- Reception duties.
- Liaising with clients and other parties on behalf of fee earners and dealing with enquiries as appropriate.
- Liaising with the Accounts department to produce cheques, pay disbursements etc.
- Maintaining diaries and making appointments when required.
- Producing documents from the Case Management system.
- Management of the files under the fee earner’s direction from opening files to preparing them for archiving.
- Filing, photocopying, collating of documents and other clerical duties

**KEY SKILLS - ESSENTIAL**
- Good keyboard skills.
- Literate and numerate.
- Ability to work accurately in accordance with the requirements of the team.
- Ability to deal with enquiries in a customer-friendly and effective manner.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines.
- Ability to work on own initiative.

**EXPERIENCE**
- Previous secretary experience within wills & probate (highly desirable).
- Case Management System experience (highly desirable).

**OTHER**
- Flexible and ‘can do’ attitude.
- Excellent written English to produce documents for the clients, other side and third parties.
- Clear and confident communication to effectively deal with telephone enquiries.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

No essential qualifications.

**SALARY**

**LOCATION**

23 Micklegate, York, YO1 6JH

**ROLE TYPE**

Part Time. Permanent.

Ison Harrison is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on any grounds other than the ability to carry out the job specification.

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

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Profit sharing
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

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