Legal Assistant / Secretary - Residential Conveyancing
Location: Oxford
Salary: Commensurate with experience
My client has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Assistant / Secretary to join their highly regarded residential property team in Oxford.
Key Responsibilities
- Administrative support including: file opening, document production, filing/archiving, retrieval of files, photocopying, email management, cheque requests, and dealing with post
- Audio typing standard and non-standard letters
- Producing correspondence, enclosures, forms, and documents
- Arranging the scanning and photocopying of paperwork
- Attending clients over the phone and in person to respond to enquiries
- Arranging meetings and other appointments
- Gathering information and updating the case management system
- Carrying out other duties and responsibilities as required
Knowledge, Skills, and Attributes
- Previous experience within a Legal Secretary or Legal Assistant role for a property / conveyancing team
- Excellent organisation capability with the ability to effectively prioritise
- Ability to work quickly, accurately, to deadlines and under pressure
- Competent with IT applications such as Word, Excel and Outlook, and experience on case management systems
- Strong written communication skills
- Demonstrate a good understanding of client relationship management
- A friendly approachable personality to facilitate the link between lawyers, clients and third parties
- Good attention to detail
- Professional, personal presentation