Legal Secretary

2 weeks ago

Swindon, United Kingdom Additional Resources Ltd Full time

**Legal Secretary**

**Location: Swindon**

**Salary: £22,000 - £26,000 + Benefits**

**The Compan_y:_**

An award-winning firm having been presented in recent years with the Law Society’s Excellence Award for Innovation and two awards for excellent customer service. They provide a comprehensive range of first-class legal services for individuals, families andbusinesses. Their purpose is to provide excellent client service and exceed expectations by being dynamic, inspiring, and proactive; client service is at the heart of everything they do.

**The Role**:

- To work within the Private Client department providing a high standard of administrative support and secretarial services.
- Engage with the team and clients to build and develop strong working relationships and contribute towards making the workplace an inspiring and successful place to work.

**Responsibilities**:
Dealing with all administrative duties relating to client transactions and secretarial requirements including but not limited to:

- Managing Fee Earner’s diary
- Preparing files for billing
- Screening incoming calls
- Typing of correspondence, photocopying, filing sending faxes and opening new files.
- Dealing with client’s matters where appropriate
- Supporting in all areas of work where appropriate
- Provision of a high standard of service to clients, being professional, reliable, friendly, and efficient.
- Recognising when clients may be going through a difficult process e.g., divorce or family transactions.
- Preparation of straightforward legal documents
- Commitment to the LEXCEL & Investors in People standards, the requirements of the Law Society and to understand them.
- Being familiar with the basic requirements of the Solicitors Accounts Rules which affect the receipt and payment into the bank of cheques and the accounting of client’s monies.

**Essential Skills & Requirements**:

- Ideally experience of undertaking Private Client Legal Secretary work or working in a Legal Secretary role
- To have the ability to remain calm, polite, and focused when dealing with different situations
- To have excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- The ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with all employees
- Sound general administrative experience
- Great attention to detail
- To enjoy a varied workload and working at pace
- To be able to produce a high standard of work when under pressure
- The ability to make sound decisions taking ownership when required.
- To present in a professional manner
- To demonstrate flexibility in approach
- To have excellent IT skills including Microsoft packages

**Desirable**:

- Experience of Investors in People and LEXCEL accreditation

**Hours**:

- Monday to Friday
- 25 hours per week

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Wellness programmes
- **Additional Resources are an Employment Business and an Employment Agency as defined within The Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Businesses Regulations 2003.**_

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