Part time Legal Scretary

Private Client Legal Secretary (Part-time)

Our clients Private Client team is growing and now has a fabulous opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join them on a part-time basis.

You will work closely with the fee earners to provide secretarial support with their day-to-day work. This may involve using digital dictation to produce correspondence, completing forms relating to inheritance tax to more general administration tasks such as photocopying and filing along with other tasks such as:

• Drafting basic wills and LPA’s etc.
• Opening and closing files
• Handling telephone enquiries and directing accordingly
• Arranging meetings and meeting room bookings
• Assisting the fee earners with financial management such as client balances, dealing with a range of client specific billing

Skills and Knowledge

• Ideally you will have at least 1 years’ experience of working within Private Client as a Legal Secretary, although this does not preclude those who have worked in other areas of law
• IT Savvy in a range of IT systems and processes such as Microsoft Office and case management systems such as Proclaim
• Fast and accurate typing ability, ideally using digital audio systems such as Bighand
• Highly organised with exceptional attention to detail
• Strong ability to self-manage and support the team where it is required

Personal Qualities

• Supportive, friendly, and collaborative approach with clients and team members
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Able to multi-task and prioritise activities towards achieving agreed timescales
• Numerate and literate
• Able to maintain a positive attitude, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible

Benefits

• A competitive salary commensurate with experience
• 23 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• An annual ‘birthday’ day of leave
• Company Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Income Protection Scheme (Discretionary)
• Continued professional development and career development opportunities
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Regular voluntary social and networking opportunities
• Refer a friend scheme

Please send your cv for immediate consideration.

RE Recruitment would like to thank you for applying for the above role. We do try to come back to all applications however if you have not heard from a consultant within 5 working days, this unfortunately means that you have been unsuccessful.

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