LEGAL SECRETARY
EASTBOURNE
SALARY DEPENDING UPON EXPERIENCE
Job Purpose
To provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to all practice areas.
Responsibilities and Duties
- To provide secretarial support in groups across the firm where required
- To provide an audio typing service centrally via digital dictation, when not allocated to support a specific group.
- Preparation of correspondence, bills and documents from audio dictation, Case Manager and manuscript in compliance with DMH Stallard house style guide.
- Completion of standard forms without fee-earner assistance.
- File and document management.
- Deal with general telephone enquiries and resolve specific enquiries, receive and relay messages to and from clients and other professionals on behalf of fee earners.
- Diary maintenance for fee-earners within the group allocated.
- General team administration when requested.
- Cover receptionist duties, administrator roles and other office services tasks, such as photocopying and post distribution when required.
- Such other duties as may be reasonably requested.
- Attend meetings and such training courses as determined by the Group Head.
Other information
Knowledge, Skills and Experience required
- Previous knowledge and experience of legal work.
- Excellent IT skills with experience in Word, Excel and PowerPoint, Email and Internet. Ideally previous experience of digital dictation and a case manager system.
- Fast and accurate audio and copy typing skills.
- Ability to use track changes, and/or other comparison software as appropriate.
- Previous experience of databases.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Effective administrative, communication, decision making and team working skills.
- Reasonable level of numeracy.
- Ability to maintain a professional and discrete attitude when dealing with issues of a sensitive and strictly confidential nature.
- Flexibility to provide support in different groups of the firm when required, with variable start and finish times on occasions.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THIS POSITION PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR CV TO TANYA BROWN AT BROWNS RECRUITMENT GROUP AS DIRECTED.