Legal Secretary

Salary: £26,000 – £36,000 per year

Legal Secretary – Family Law Team – Colchester

Competitive salary + Benefits

Our client are seeking an experienced Legal Secretary with significant and current experience working within a Private Client team to support fee earners with administrative and secretarial tasks.

Ideally you will have current or recent experience of working within a Family or Private Client Legal team.

Tasks will include:

• The preparation of correspondence and complex legal documents
• Audio typing from digital dictation
• Diary management
• Photocopying and scanning
• File and case management, bill preparation
• Ensuring all new business opportunities are processed in an efficient manner
• Meet and greet clients when required
• Providing full secretarial support and general administrative assistance
• Opening, closing and archiving files
• Building and maintaining knowledge of clients and their matters, and the work in general

Skills required:

• Significant and current experience working as a Legal Secretary, preferably gained within a private client/family department
• Be comfortable working in a team or on your own initiative and will be willing to go the extra mile for clients and colleagues
• A sympathetic and professional manner with the ability to pre-empt problems and identify solutions
• Excellent interpersonal skills, confident and presentable
• A pro-active approach to your work with excellent attention to detail
• Good organisational skills and the ability to prioritise
• Be flexible – from time to time you may be required to stay late depending on the demands of individual matters.
• Proven IT (Microsoft Office) and audio typing skills
• Experience using case management systems
• Accuracy and speed
• Proof reading, checking for spelling and grammar
• Knowledge of PDF Document Bundling
• A secretarial qualification however this is not essential.

Benefits include:

• 22 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays and an additional 3 days annual leave for Christmas closure (33 days in total)
• Health benefits scheme
• Pension Scheme

For further information and a confidential discussion please contact Hollie Preston at Errington Legal Recruitment.