Legal Secretary in Family - Great Opportunity!
- Recruiter
- Career Legal, Legal PA & Secretarial
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- Up to £36,000
- Posted
- 29 Apr 2016
- Closes
- 27 May 2016
- Ref
- CL/LSFF
- Job Title
- Legal Secretary
- Practice Area
- Family / Matrimonial
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our client, a well-known law firm with a reputation for leading in their market, are now recruiting for a Legal Secretary within their Family/ Matrimonial team. The firm is well established, having been around for over 200 years, but is composed of vibrant, energetic and personable teams ensuring that it is one of the friendliest firms to work for in Central London!
They are looking for an extremely organised and proactive secretary to provide a high level of professional support to any allocated Fee Earners as well as other members of the Department. The secretary will be highly motivated, display outstanding attention to detail and have the ability to multitask with ease. It is essential that they are a strong team player with a positive, up-beat approach.
Duties will include, but not be limited to, the following:
- Provides excellent service to clients, both internal and external, in a timely and professional manner, presenting a positive image of the Firm at all times
- Acts as a first point of contact for Fee Earners
- Provides assistance in the delivery of marketing communications, and records all business development meetings in InterAction
- Effective diary management, and awareness of Fee Earners' workloads to plan ahead, with supervision
- Creates typed work of a high quality, formatting in accordance with house style, at high speed, with accuracy and following internal guidelines
- Makes effective use of the Document Management System
- Creates new documents from the Firm’s templates, using contact data from InterAction where appropriate
- Keeps accurate records of all files sent to off-site storage via Records
- Prepares AML documentation with supervision and obtains relevant documentation from clients in a timely manner, as required by Fee Earners
If you feel you are ideal for this role and are interested/ have experience in the realm of Family law – please get in touch now!
To apply, please click on the button and send your Cover Note/CV with your contact details to Kelly Whelan for immediate consideration!
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Important Notice
It is Career Legal’s policy, as a matter of courtesy, to respond to all applications within three working days. However because of the volume of applications, we are sometimes unable to respond to individual candidates. If we have not contacted you within three working days your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other position that you may see in the future. Thank you.
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