Legal Secretary Co-ordinator / Legal Secretary Supervisor

Our client a specialist law firm based in central London is seeking a new Legal Secretary Co-ordinator / Legal Secretary Supervisor

Reporting to the Legal Secretarial Services Manager you will be responsible for managing a team of Legal Secretaries who provide support to the firm’s litigation fee earners.

Ket duties include:

• Guiding and advising the team – mentoring and coaching.
• Monitoring workloads across the team to ensure work is balanced.
• Acting as the primary point of contact for fee earners during the absence of their secretary and coordinating work allocation during secretarial absence.
• Liaising with fee earners for feedback and relaying this to the team on a one-to-one basis.
• Conducting 1-1s and appraisals.
• Acting as a channel for communications between the team and Senior Leaders.
• Attend weekly Team Leader meetings and conduct daily meetings with your team.
• Ensure new team members are successfully integrated eg assign a buddy and arrange secretarial training as part of induction.
• Monitor any conduct or performance issues within the team and dealing with in accordance with HR procedures.
• Flag any concerns to the Secretarial Services Manager.
• Provide support with other activities for example secretarial projects, as required.
• Assist with the recruitment of new secretaries, including reviewing applications, conducting interviews and providing feedback to the recruitment team.
• Assist with annual salary review for your team.