Legal Secretary - Family
Oldham Salary Negotiable
A fantastic, leading firm in Oldham, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their Family team.
Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Secretary in Family:
- Provide high level support to partners and fee earners working closely with the partner and their team in the Family Department
- Extensive diary management and organising complex travel arrangements for a lot of overseas travel for partners
- Assisting partners with the daily secretarial duties such as managing bundles
- Plays an active role in knowledge sharing to ensure growth and development
- Assists the partner in providing them with effective and high quality secretarial support
- Undertakes all aspects of the role using the most appropriate tools and resources for the task to meet deadlines
- Demonstrates flexibility and proactively contribute to the team's success by actively seeking to improve working processes
- Ensures all work is undertaken in the correct priority order
- Communicates with Team Coordinators/Team Leaders to keep them appraised of a task's status
- Follows team processes and procedures when undertaking tasks
- Collaborates with team members on team processes, procedures and solutions - ensuring more junior members of the team understand and adhere to these
- Actively participates in team meetings
Skills Required:
- Extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary
- Have a strong working knowledge of iManage and Bighand or similar tools
- IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Lync - Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams
- Detailed and strong working knowledge of and high level of proficiency in Elite billing
- Exemplary document management and filing
- Excellent telephone manner
- 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 have the relevant experience, please send your CV to georgia@ Douglas-scott.co.uk for immediate consideration