Legal Secretary with either experience in Private Clients or strong abilities in dictation typing. This is a great opportunity to work for a large firm with fantastic benefits in a prime location.
Client Details
The client is a reputable and established Law Firm based in Birmingham City Centre looking for a Legal Secretary with administration skills and strong experience in dictation typing.
Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide full secretarial support to fee earners, including diary management, document preparation, and client liaison.
- Dictation typing and preparing correspondence, documents, and forms.
- Assist in the administration of wills, probate, and trusts, ensuring compliance with legal processes.
- Manage correspondence, filing, and maintaining client records.
- Handle telephone and email inquiries from clients and external parties.
Profile
Requirements:
- Proven 1-2 years' experience as a Legal Secretary or Secretary with dictation typing experience
- Excellent typing skills, able to quickly and accurately process legal documents, including correspondence and bills, from manuscript or digital dictation, with minimal supervision.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize a busy workload.
- Experience of Tikit (or similar case management system) and BigHand dictation would be advantageous but not essential.
- Good telephone manner; able to take messages from new and existing clients on the telephone with accuracy and pass on in a timely manner.
- Excellent IT skills with the ability to pick up new systems quickly.
- Displays a can-do, positive attitude to work, and a high degree of self-management.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a professional telephone manner.
- A keen eye for detail and a high level of accuracy in all work.
- Ability to work well as part of a team and independently.
Job Offer
Salary - £25000 - £27000pa
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Transport links
- Work from home