Legal PA

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