Legal Secretary / Legal Assistant

Salary: £26,000 per year

Pyramid8 Recruitment are delighted to be working with our client to recruit a Legal Secretary within their Conveyancing and Property Division. Our client has offices based throughout West Yorkshire with a multi-disciplined team within Conveyancing, Family, Mediation, Private Client and Personal Injury. This is a permanent role which shall be office based in their Leeds city centre office.

Key responsibilities:

• Dairy management, booking travel, organising meetings, and events
• Client care and lasing with clients via email and telephone
• Producing letters, legal documents, emails
• General administration inc. filing, scanning, photocopying
• Assisting the Fee earners and Partners within the department with daily administrative tasks
• Responsible for dealing with correspondence between clients, land registry and third parties.
• Open files, process client information, apply for searches, handle completions, deal with post completion tasks
• Be proactive and manage cases on their own initiative and have excellent attention to detail.

Essential Criteria:

• You must have worked and have demonstratable experience of working in a similar role as a Legal Secretary/Legal Assistant
• A degree within law (this is desirable)
• A sound understanding of legal practice, whether this is within a generalist area or conveyancing
• Excellent attention to detail and able to work efficiently to deadlines
• Confident and strong communication skills both over the phone and in person
• Pro-active, enthusiastic with an “can do” attitude
• Confident in managing your own time and workload as well as working within a team

Due to the amount of applications we receive, unfortunately we are not able to give feedback to all candidates, if you have not heard back within 5 days please assume that you have not been successful for the role you have applied for. We will hold your details on our database and consider you for future opportunities, unless you instruct us otherwise. Good luck with your job search. Many thanks – Pyramid8 Ltd.