Senior Legal Secretary

Senior Private Client Legal Secretary

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Legal Secretary to join a growing L500 firm, based in Huddersfield, to provide effective support to fee earners within the team and work of the Private Client department.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Act as a workflow supervisor
• Ensure urgent work is promptly completed or delegated to the appropriate team member
• Ensure all work (other than confidential) is directed through the team and works hard to make sure fee earners follow this process
• Delegate all junior level tasks to administrative resource assists the team in providing fee earners with effective and high-quality secretarial support, enabling them to focus on providing the best legal services to clients
• Ensures all work is undertaken in the correct priority order
• Devise a plan to share complex tasks which are time bound
• Proactively engage with and assist fee earners regarding work requirements and encourage and support all team members to utilise the team
• Communicate with fee earners to keep them appraised of a tasks’ status
• Engage in mutual delegation of tasks between team members and assist the team to meet deadlines
• Ensure clear and concise record-keeping relating to tasks undertaken and correct filing of tasks and supporting materials 
• Collaborate with team members on team processes, procedures, and solutions – ensuring more junior members of the team understand and adhere to these

Person specification – key skills/qualifications required:

• Extensive relevant experience as a legal secretary
• IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
• Excellent diary management
• Exemplary document management and filing
• Excellent telephone manner
• Detailed understanding of billing
• Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
• Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
• Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members

If you are a Senior Legal Secretary looking to join a forward-thinking firm, please apply directly via the link. 

For further information contact Rachael Atherton at G2 Legal.