Legal Secretary Commercial Property Agriculture & Estates

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join their Commercial Property Agriculture and Estates team.� The position is full time and office based.

This friendly team is looking for someone with excellent secretarial skills to support with a range of tasks in a timely and efficient way. You will be responsible for providing an efficient secretarial and administrative service to fee earners and teams within the firm.

You will be a team player with a strong work ethic and have the ability to effectively communicate with colleagues and clients alike.� You should also have a good level of IT literacy and be confident in learning about and using systems and software.

Some of your duties will include:

• Performing a variety of administrative duties;


• Communicating with fee earners and clients;


• Drafting and completing letters, emails and legal documents;


• Transcribing and proof reading letters, emails and other correspondence;


• Document creation including copy typing manuscript amendments to documents and producing new versions of documents, preparing comparisons against previous versions and using track changes;


• Accurate typing from dictation;


• Answering the telephone professionally, taking accurate messages from clients and other contacts;


• Making appointments on behalf of the fee earners when requested and servicing meetings including booking conference rooms and provision of refreshments for the fee earners and clients;


• Dealing with administrative tasks, including scanning, printing, storage of deeds and photocopying;


• Preparing engrossments of legal documents for signing;


• Involvement in the efficient management of client/matter files to include general filing, ID checks, preparing client engagement letters and terms and conditions; and


• Supporting fee earners with accounting and billing processes, as well as managing queries.

Requirements:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills;


• Excellent organisational, time management and problem solving skills;


• Strong written and oral communication skills;


• High computer literacy with the ability to support others;


• Ability to deal with legal documents including occasional unfamiliar tasks;


• Strong attention to detail and accuracy; and


• Ideally previous experience as a legal Secretary

Due to the large number of responses we receive it is not always possible to respond to every application straight away. Should your skills and experience be a match for this role, or any other vacancy we may have, we will normally contact you within 72 hours of receiving your application.� If you wish to apply for further roles please do so.