Legal Secretary / Receptionist

Legal Secretary / Receptionist

Taunton

Up to £16,000

We are recruiting for a legal secretary and receptionist to join the Taunton office of a well-respected regional law firm. This is a nice role for somebody with some legal experience of file opening, and good reception and customer service skills, looking to take on their next opportunity.

This role will be split between legal secretarial work and providing reception cover.

– On a day to day basis you will be responsible for a range of duties including
– Provide cover on Reception by meeting and greeting all callers to the office and undertake general administrative duties including
– Post/DX opening and distribution
– File opening and closing, logging, storing and retrieving files/deeds/wills, destruction of files,
– Stationery ordering,
– Banking,
– Preparation of payments by BACs

You will need to take a pro-active approach to ensure that secretarial assistance is provided and join the typing pool to support typing via digital dictation.

This is an important element of the role and the successful candidate is required to demonstrate good secretarial and typing skills with good attention to detail.

To be considered applicants should have some legal experience opening and closing files and dealing with legal documents, but also be comfortable dealing with reception and other admin duties.

Previous experience in a similar role in a legal environment would be an advantage although full training will be provided to the successful candidate.

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