Real Estate Legal Secretary

Location
Manchester
Salary
£24000 - £26000 per annum, Benefits: Benefits Package
Posted
30 Apr 2021
Closes
28 May 2021
Ref
1123953-1-GT-17
Contact
Gemma Taylor
Job Title
Legal IT
PQE Level
10+, 2-4, 5-7, 8-10
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
A rare opportunity has arisen for an experienced Real Estate Legal Secretary to join an award-winning and well-respected law firm based in Manchester City Centre.  You will be required to have previous legal secretarial experience within real estate/commercial property, and experience within construction law would be advantageous.

The firm is offering a competitive salary banding plus excellent benefits package.

You will be supporting fee earners dealing with a variety of commercial property matters, including disputes and contentious construction work.

Duties include:
  • Providing an effective, timely and efficient service to the firm’s clients
  • Communicating with clients in a professional and courteous manner
  • Producing quality documentation for the Department
  • Dealing with admin duties, eg archiving, billing and opening and closing matters
  • Audio typing using Bighand
  • Assisting other secretaries and admin staff as and when needed
Experience required:
  • Use of word processing programmes and other IT programmes used by secretarial staff (ie Word, Outlook, Excel and Adobe)
  • Ability to use digital dictation software (Bighand an advantage)
  • Previous experience working within Commercial Property/Real Estate essential
  • Previous experience working within Construction would be advantageous
  • Experience using the following would be an advantage: Searchflow/TM or Search Acumen, PLC and the Land Registry Portal