Senior Legal Secretary in Conveyancing

Well established law firm with offices in Surrey are seeking a Senior Legal Secretary to work within their Residential Conveyancing Department.

This role will be to assist 2 fee earners in their day to day work by providing support and an efficient secretarial and administrative service.  One is the Head of Property and one is an Associate Solicitor. There may also be the opportunity, in time, for this person to monitor the workflow of the secretarial team as a whole, supporting the Secretarial Team Leader in day to day duties.  This will involve monitoring the system to ensure that all dictations have been dealt with by the secretaries as appropriate, booking secretarial holiday in the diary and ensuring secretarial cover is available during these times

• Providing full secretarial support including using a digital dictation system to produce correspondence and other documentation related to property transactions with PA duties including diary management
• Maintenance of comprehensive and accurate client admin files.
• Undertaking online Land Registry searches and responding to enquiries on behalf of lawyers.
• Assistance in general team administration including meeting and greeting clients, taking calls and directing accordingly and arranging meeting room bookings.
• Managing post completions procedures including SDLT returns and title registrations.

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

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