Legal Secretary – Private Client
Poole
Salary dependant on experience
My client, a well-respected firm of long standing, is looking for a legal secretary to work full time in a permanent position in their office.
The successful candidate will be able to execute a variety of secretarial duties, working with fee earners and other members of the team on a variety of administrative functions. Candidates will have to have effective time management and organisational skills coupled with the ability to be accurate in their work and able to meet deadlines.
If you have previous experience in Private Client work this would be desirable.
Responsibilities:
- Typing correspondence and legal documentation from notes or by dictation
- Taking calls and passing messages to and from clients
- File management, opening and closing, using practise management system
- Diary management, booking meetings and appointments
- Preparing trial bundles
- All other administrational tasks such as scanning, copying and emailing.
Qualifications/Experience:
- Legal secretarial training/qualification
- Must have previous experience in a legal secretarial role
- Strong organisational and communication skills
- Microsoft Office suite (Outlook, Word, some knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel)
- Well organised and efficient
- Able to work to deadlines under pressure
- Confidentiality, conscientious, tactful and patient
- Excellent grammar, spelling and punctuation
- Good standard of general education.
If you are interested in this role, please apply below or speak to Will at Rolf Berryman to discuss.