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Commercial Property Legal Secretary

Posted 12 days ago

A highly regarded and well-established law firm with offices across Kent are seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to work within their Property Department. This role will be to assist Fee Earners with a busy and mixed property caseloads in their day-to-day work by providing support and an efficient secretarial and administrative service.



Duties will include:






  • Providing full secretarial support including using a digital dictation system to produce correspondence and other documentation related to property transactions with PA duties including diary management.

  • Maintenance of comprehensive and accurate client admin files.

  • Undertaking online Land Registry searches and responding to enquiries on behalf of lawyers.

  • Assistance in general team administration including meeting and greeting clients, taking calls and directing accordingly and arranging meeting room bookings.

  • Managing post completions procedures including SDLT returns and title registrations.





Desired skills and experience:






  • Legal Secretary/Assistant experience with at least 1 years + of solid Commercial Property experience.

  • Strong and efficient secretarial and admin skills.

  • Fast, accurate typing ability, ideally using digital audio systems – touch typing is highly desirable.

  • Experience of using case management systems.





What they offer:






  • Monday – Friday 8:30am – 5pm. This is an officed based role.

  • 26 days plus bank holidays

  • Hybrid Working (3 days in the office)

  • Pension scheme

  • Salary depending on experience - £25,000 - £27,000.