Legal Secretary in Private Client and Tax

Oxford, Oxfordshire
Competitive
05 Apr 2017
03 May 2017
CL/LPAPCTOjb
Legal Secretary
Permanent
Full Time

Interested in working in a City firm with fantastic career opportunity and all the benefits they include but don’t fancy the commute? Look no further as one of the City’s leading Private Client law firms are looking to recruit a Junior Legal PA to work within their Private Client Tax department in their Oxford office.

This opportunity would suit someone with either 6 months’ admin experience or CILEX Legal Secretarial qualifications (or both!). The firm provide full training and there is plenty of scope for progression in both Oxford and London so is ideal for a candidate looking to get the first step on their career ladder.

Duties will include:

  • Working towards managing diaries;
  • Working towards arranging meetings, booking conference rooms, refreshments, checking rooms prior to meetings etc. and liaising with other attendees, both internal and external;
  • Working towards organising travel arrangements, booking and confirmation of reservations and dealing with related invoices;
  • Arranging for (or where not appropriate), conducting photocopying, printing, organising couriers, sending out of letters, faxes etc.;
  • Opening and closing of general files, general filing, record keeping and archiving of files;
  • Using effective systems to ensure that both short and long term tasks are completed within required timescales.
  • Checking correspondence, attachments, documents, reports, presentations, faxes etc produced by the Legal DP Secretarial team before they are passed to the relevant fee earner and undertaking basic/minor amendments
  • Assisting others in the department whenever there is spare capacity or it is evident that a colleague needs assistance with their workload;
  • Picking up telephone calls for other members of the department when they are away from their desk;

To apply, please click on the button and send your Cover Note/CV with your contact details to Jo Benson immediately!

**For our application policy please view Career Legal's company information page on our website. Career Legal is a Recruitment Agency and is advertising this vacancy on behalf of one of its Clients.

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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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