Secretary (Social Housing Litigation) in Manchester

We have a newly created role for an experienced Secretary to join our growing Housing department in Manchester. Your role will be to provide secretarial support for our Social Housing Litigation fee earners in the provision of a wide range of legal services to our clients.

What will I be doing

• Working in conjunction with the Partners and fee earners, you'll organise and prioritise workloads on an ongoing basis, helping to maintain diaries and identify potential scheduling conflicts as and when they arise.
• Providing administrative and secretarial support, including correspondence, e-filing, billing, and diary/booking management.
• Opening, maintaining, and closing client files
• Liaising with clients and taking instructions under the supervision of fee earners.
• ollating, filing and serving Court papers and bundles by post, e-mail and online portals.
• Instructing third party agents in litigation, including process servers and Court advocacy agents.
• Assisting in the preparation and submission of periodic client reports.
• Using precedents as directed and delegated by fee earners to prepare and draft documents.

You'll have

• Ideally previous experience working as a Legal Secretary within Litigation
• Proficiency in document preparation, including house style, schedule levels, stripping out and re-formatting documents, table of contents, formulas, track changes, document comparison packages.
• Great organisational and time management skills. You'll be efficient, capable of working to deadlines and able to use your initiative without being prompted.
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel, and other IT packages.

About us

We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthen our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week in our Manchester office.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact people@wardhadaway.com quoting vacancy reference NTX1224481.

If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.