Part Time Legal Secretary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Legal Secretary to join a well-respected top-tier law firm in Manchester City Centre within their Commercial Litigation team on a part-time basis. You will be required to have previous legal secretarial experience and be proficient in Word, digital dictation, Excel, Outlook, PDF Docs, compareDocs, DocXtools, and any other in-house.

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

**This role is working 16 hours per week**
 
Duties include

• File administration including new client and matter opening; initial conflict checks, scanning, and filing, closing and archiving
• Arranging meetings, including booking rooms, requesting conference calls, and sending appointments/MS Teams/Video Call meetings
• Prepare standard documentation including preparing all draft bills, draft letters, and sending out bills
• Updating and sending out monthly information sheets to clients
• Manage and monitor diaries for fee-earners in the team
• Maintain team’s clients database and precedent documents
• Monitor fee earner’s Outlook during periods of absence and identify urgent emails and redirect/deal as appropriate
• Ad-hoc tasks such as travel booking, processing expenses, compiling PDF documents
• Assist with any reasonable requests
• Limited typing of emails, correspondence, and documents from audio/copy, as required
• Limited typing of amends to documents using track changes (or without and thereafter using compareDocs) including, if required, re-formatting and cross-referencing
• Converting documents into house style
• Make and receive telephone calls evaluating communication and ensuring all calls are dealt with effectively and swiftly
• Scanning documents and filing into Workspaces