Legal Secretary
Location: Frinton-on-Sea
Salary: Competitive
Hours: Full-time
Working pattern: Office-based / hybrid
Gerrard White is recruiting a Legal Secretary for an established law firm client. You'll support a team of solicitors and fee earners, keeping files, documents and diaries in order so they can concentrate on client work.
The role
- Producing letters, emails, reports and legal documents from digital dictation, manuscript and drafts
- Formatting, proofreading and amending documents to the firm's house style
- Opening new matters, carrying out file set-up checks and closing files on completion
- Keeping paper and electronic files organised, accurate and up to date
- Managing fee earners' diaries, booking appointments, meetings and meeting rooms
- Acting as first point of contact for client calls and emails, taking clear messages and dealing with routine queries
- Preparing and sending out client care letters, engagement documents and standard forms
- Scanning, photocopying, collating and posting documents, including bundles where needed
- Assisting with billing administration, such as preparing bills and logging payments in and out
- Liaising with clients, other firms, courts, the Land Registry and other third parties as needed
- Covering for colleagues in the secretarial team during busy periods and absences
About you
- Experience as a legal secretary or in a legal administration role
- Fast, accurate typing, with confident audio typing
- A good working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel
- Experience with a legal case management system (training can be given on the firm's own system)
- Strong spelling, grammar and attention to detail
- Well organised and able to juggle several fee earners' priorities and deadlines
- Professional and friendly on the phone and in writing
- Discreet with confidential client information
Gerrard White is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy.
Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
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