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CRA Consulting are a specialist legal recruiter, operating across the UK. CRA works in partnership with reputable law firms with either local, regional, national or international presence. We recruit at all levels from board, director and partnership level through to support staff.
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About the business and role of Legal Secretary:
Our client has an opportunity for an experienced Legal Secretary to join their Manchester office in their EPC Construction team, providing a high-quality and efficient secretarial service to Senior Associates, Associates and Trainees across different Practice Groups. Reporting directly to the Secretarial Services Manager, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- General legal correspondence
- Preparing Court/Counsel's bundles/court forms
- Preparation of hard and soft copy engrossments and other legal documents
- PDF conversions
- Amending, formatting and comparing documents
- Copy-typing and digital dictation
- Creation of secure links
- Liaising with clients and courts
- Opening new matters
- Saving documents electronically
- Proof reading and quality checking of documents and correspondence
- Working within Excel documents
- Diary and email management for the fee-earners
- Handling telephone enquiries as and when required
- Travel arrangements, processing fee-earner expenses and dealing with other admin
- Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc when required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
- Liaising with Finance and other business support teams
To apply to Legal Secretary, you will be required to meet the following criteria:
- Strong secretarial background
- Real Estate experience desirable but not essential
- IT Literate
- Strong organisational and time management skills
How to apply:
If this vacancy is of interest, please click the apply button. Alternatively, if you would like to discuss with Alastair Pickford who is managing this vacancy email me on
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