Legal PA
- Recruiter
- Interlink Recruitment Limited
- Location
- Manchester, Greater Manchester
- Salary
- Dependent on Experience
- Posted
- 30 Sep 2021
- Closes
- 28 Oct 2021
- Ref
- ZA/3866
- Job Title
- Legal PA
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Legal PA / Secretary to join an award-winning international law firm to assist the Fee Earners within their growing Banking & Finance department in Manchester City Centre.
The Role:
The successful candidate will be joining the firm’s Banking & Finance department as a Legal PA / Secretary. Your duties will include but are not limited to the following:
- Managing diaries, keeping them up to date and reminding fee earners of meetings daily
- Book internal/external meetings
- Organising travel arrangements
- Arranging photocopying, printing, scanning, sending out letters etc.
- Arranging for files to be opened and closed, supervise general filing requirements and record keeping
- Support fee earners in marketing activities
- Actively become a part in the care of clients and be wholly familiar with contacts/clients
- Enter, maintain and update client details and relevant information on the firm's contacts system
- Dealing with basic client queries and general administration
- Arranging client meetings
- Taking internal and external telephone queries
- Monitoring post/emails and deal with as appropriate
- Ensuring all client related correspondence is passed on to an appropriate fee earner if the relevant person is out of the office
- Arranging absence cover where necessary and communicate this to the relevant fee earners
- Checking correspondence, attachments and documents etc. produced by the document production team before they are passed to the relevant fee earner, making amendments when appropriate.
- Typing urgent/short/confidential correspondence and emails
- Produce and maintain Excel spreadsheets as required
- Assisting fee earners in ensuring their time is recorded properly and entered onto the system daily
- Assisting fee earners in the billing and credit control process
- Completing documentation for payment into and out of client account and assisting fee earners to ensure the Solicitors Accounts Rules are being complied with
Person Specifics:
- Previous experience as a Legal Secretary / PA
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent telephone manner
- Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office and Outlook
- Accurate typing of at least 60 wpm
If you're interested in this position, and you meet the requirements of the role, please click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Zoe Alexander for a confidential discussion.
Our advertisements use salary and experience as a guide only. Interlink Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer.
*Please Note: Due to the high volume of applications we are currently receiving we are unable to contact applicants who have been unsuccessful