Conveyancing Legal Secretary
A fantastic, leading law firm, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their already impressive Conveyancing team.
Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Secretary will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Secretaries, Fee Earners and Partners to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Secretarial Duties in Wolverhampton.
Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Secretary in Conveyancing
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- Provide high level support to partners and fee earners working closely with the partner and their team in the Conveyancing 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 - Conveyancing experience is essential
- At least 3 years solid experience
- 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
For further information or to discuss the role in more detail, please contact Ellie on or forward your most recent CV to
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