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Property Litigation Legal Secretary – Well-regarded UK law firm – Competitive Employee Benefits – Hybrid Working

  • Job Type :

    Permanent

    Full-Time

  • Salary : £47 000

Property Litigation Legal Secretary

 

Well-regarded UK law firm known for its dynamic, full-service practice is seeking to hire a Property Legal PA to join their London office on a permanent basis. The successful Legal PA will provide secretarial and administrative support to a range of fee earners, including Partners, Associates and Trainees, in their Property team.

 

What’s on Offer:

 

  • Salary to £47,000
  • Hybrid working (3 days office / 2 days remote)
  • Competitive employee benefits on offer to include healthcare plans, cycle to work scheme!

 

Property Litigation Legal Secretary – What you will be doing:

 

  • Support fee earners with administrative activities (for example, bundling, indexing, general organisation etc)
  • Responsible for client care correspondence, opening files, conflict checks and sanctions searches and working with the AML team during the client/file opening process
  • Act as first point of contact for clients on phone, email and face-to-face
  • Prepare client registration documents, engagement/assignment letters, conflicts checks, money laundering, sanctions searches and audit letters, with direction from the Partner/fee earner
  • Manage inbox and file e-mails, ensuring that urgent emails are promptly picked up by fee earners, or forwarded to another fee earner in their absence
  • Carry out typing tasks i.e. urgent documents (digital and non-digital dictation)
  • Make travel arrangements (flights, hotels, dinners etc)
  • Work collaboratively with other secretarial support and provide support to the secretarial team during secretarial absences for the department (and firm)
  • Attend to relevant property and finance searches through “InfoTrack”, deals with Land Registry applications and stamp duty returns with direction from the fee earner
  • Supports fee earners with billing processes

 

Property Litigation Legal Secretary – What we are looking for :

 

  • At least 3 years’ experience as a Legal PA within Commercial and Residential Conveyancing
  • Ideally a secretarial qualification (ILEX, Pitmans, Quest, RSA or equivalent)

 

Laura Buck

lbuck@larbeyevans.com

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