Legal Litigation Secretary

Salary: £26,000 – £36,000 per year

Legal Litigation Secretary is required to join our busy and well-respected legal client in Colchester in a busy dispute resolution team. As Legal Litigation Secretary, you will join a busy and highly regarded team working alongside experienced Solicitors who provide practical advice to companies, businesses, and individuals on the best way of resolving a wide range of disputes. Acting as the first point of contact for Fee Earners, in your role you will be providing a first-rate service to clients, both internal and external, in a timely and professional manner. We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic experienced legal litigation secretary to join our client’s dispute resolutions team and hit the ground running to contribute towards delivering a proactive legal support service to their lawyers.

The Role

• Providing a first-rate telephone support service, answering all telephone calls and managing enquiries.
• Taking appropriate and detailed information and ensuring any messages are passed on instantly to the relevant persons, including cross-referring clients to other teams as appropriate.
• Creating typed work of high quality, formatting in accordance with house style, being aware of the layout of documents, forms, and letters and producing these with accuracy and at a high speed.
• Proofreading all documents for spelling, grammar, and sense, querying wording where appropriate.
• Liaising with Fee Earner/Team Leader regarding overload/underload of work and being prepared to assist other team members or departments if required to cover holidays, sickness, and heavy workloads.
• Alerting Fee Earners to unpaid bills, monitoring and chasing payments for Aged Debts
• Taking responsibility for inquiries and providing the Fee Earner and Client with as much information as possible to ensure queries are dealt with in the first instance
• Ensuring files are kept tidy, accurate and up to date then closed and archived as appropriate
• Demonstrating effective and productive diary management, and awareness of Fee Earners’ workloads to plan ahead, with minimal supervision
• Organising daily routine to ensure that correspondence, documents and instructions dictated or given by your Fee Earners are completed accurately and on time.

The Person

• Must possess previous legal litigation experience
• Strong audio typing and proof-reading skills
• Maintaining a high level of proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) 
• Has excellent timekeeping and prioritises work effectively
• Flexible, reliable and cooperative with a professional approach to work
• Works as a positive, friendly and helpful team player
• Communicates in a positive and constructive manner

Benefits to you

• Salary dependant on experience
• Working hours Monday to Friday 9-5.30pm
• Holiday 25 days plus bank holidays
• Opportunity to work or a leading very recognised law firm
• Lovely working environment

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