Legal Secretary - Agriculture & Estates
Location
: Northampton
Salary:
£25,000 per annum DOE
Hours:
Full time Monday - Friday, Office based
ACS have collabrated with another leading firm within the legal world, to help support with the recruitment of a legal secretary to join their Agriculture & Estates team. If you don't have experience within this area of law, commercial property experience is also welcomed, as well as legal secretaries with a strong employment history who would like to transfer into a new area of law!
Our client is looking for someone with excellent secretarial skills to support with a range of tasks in a timely and efficient way. The person in this role will be responsible for providing an efficient secretarial and administrative service to fee earners and teams within the firm. You will be a team player with a strong work ethic and have the ability to effectively communicate with colleagues and clients alike. The person should also have a good level of IT literacy and be confident in learning about and using systems and software
What the job entails:
- Performing a variety of administrative duties;
- Communicating with fee earners and clients;
- Drafting and completing letters, emails and legal documents;
- Transcribing and proof reading letters, emails and other correspondence;
- Document creation including copy typing manuscript amendments to documents and producing new versions of documents, preparing comparisons against previous versions and using track changes;
- Accurate typing from dictation;
- Answering the telephone professionally, taking accurate messages from clients and other contacts;
- Making appointments on behalf of the fee earners when requested and servicing meetings including booking conference rooms and provision of refreshments for the fee earners and clients;
- Dealing with administrative tasks, including scanning, printing, storage of deeds and photocopying;
- Preparing engrossments of legal documents for signing;
- Involvement in the efficient management of client/matter files to include general filing, ID checks, preparing client engagement letters and terms and conditions; and
- Supporting fee earners with accounting and billing processes, as well as managing queries.
A little about you
- Excellent written and oral communication skills;
- Excellent organisational, time management and problem solving skills;
- Strong written and oral communication skills;
- High computer literacy with the ability to support others;
- Ability to deal with legal documents including occasional unfamiliar tasks;
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy; and
- Ideally previous experience as a legal Secretary