Legal Recruitment & Executive Search Specialist
Permanent
Full-Time
A top UK Law firm is looking to hire a new Legal Secretary on a permanent basis, to support their busy Private Client team with all secretarial and administration duties. This role will be to work 9.30am – 5.30pm, 2 days a week in the office, 3 remote and a salary up to £44,000 is on offer plus great benefits.
Responsibilities will include effective and proactive diary management, and awareness of Fee Earners’ workloads to plan ahead, with minimal supervision, processing relevant applications, forms or searches, researching new clients / contacts and prepares bios before meetings, and conducts basic research (on-line or otherwise) for Fee Earners when required, arranging travel and any other activities on behalf of Fee Earners, creating typed work of a high quality, formatting in accordance with house style, at high speed, with accuracy and following internal guidelines, creating new documents from the Firm’s templates, using contact data from InterAction. The Legal Secretary will also be tasked with preparing bills (including bill narratives), preparing AML documentation and obtains relevant documentation, carrying out conflict searches and correctly identifying the work type. Candidates will be tasked with maintaining up to date knowledge and a strong understanding of Fee Earners’ matters to be able to provide the best level support and assist with training sessions for the team and providing knowledge induction for new team PAs. This position will also be supporting a Knowledge Lawyer. Candidates will need experience using Structure Flow and PowerPoint or similar and be familiar with producing flowcharts, family trees and diagrams.
The Legal Secretary will need to have previous secretarial experience within a law firm with, ideally with experience in a Private Client team, this is not absolutely essential. Excellent written, communication and organisational skills are essential, in addition to excellent attention to detail skills.