A highly regarded and well-established law firm with offices across Kent are seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to work within their Property Department. This role will be to assist Fee Earners with a busy and mixed property caseloads in their day-to-day work by providing support and an efficient secretarial and administrative service.
Duties will include:
- Providing full secretarial support including using a digital dictation system to produce correspondence and other documentation related to property transactions with PA duties including diary management.
- Maintenance of comprehensive and accurate client admin files.
- Undertaking online Land Registry searches and responding to enquiries on behalf of lawyers.
- Assistance in general team administration including meeting and greeting clients, taking calls and directing accordingly and arranging meeting room bookings.
- Managing post completions procedures including SDLT returns and title registrations.
Desired skills and experience:
- Legal Secretary/Assistant experience with at least 1 years + of solid property expertise is essential. This can be Residential Conveyancing or Commercial Property.
- Strong and efficient secretarial and admin skills.
- Fast, accurate typing ability, ideally using digital audio systems – touch typing is highly desirable.
- Experience of using case management systems.
What they offer:
- Monday – Friday 8:30am – 5pm. This is an officed based role.
- Standard holiday plus bank holiday.
- Pension scheme
- Salary depending on experience - £23,000 - £27,000.