Family Legal Secretary

Family Legal Secreyary, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Looking for an experienced Family Legal Secretary to join one of the top North East Newcastle based Law Firms to assist within a busy Family department. 

• Processing expenses
• Inbox management
• Supporting bundling – indices, front sheets etc
• Assisting with billing and producing bill letters
• Filing and archiving
• Extensive diary management, booking internal and external meetings, watching out for any clashes
• Liaising with the Post Room and Reprographics department
• Typing
• Providing full administrative and secretarial support and assistance
• Word processing including preparing correspondence via email and letter and court documents
• Using MS Office suite (Word, Excel and Outlook) and case management system
• To prepare the Conference Room for meetings as necessary and for the tidying and clearance of the room at the end of the meeting
• To prepare mail and enclosures

• Experience of providing a polished secretarial service and administrative support to an extremely busy team of allocated fee earners
• Provide assistance to partners and fee earners during the absence of other secretaries in the team, as and when required
• Confident at building excellent external and internal relationships, including with clients, business contacts and the wider partnership
• A sense of pride in the role of being a personal assistant and a desire to add value
• Excellent and pleasant communication skills together with emotional intelligence

Opportunity to work within one of the top North East Law Firms in an excellent office environement with a great team.