Job Description
Legal Secretary
Huddersfield
£24,000 - £28,000
My client, an award-winning Law Firm, is looking to recruit a Legal Secretary to join their Private Client team, based in Huddersfield.
Main Duties:
* Typing documents, emails, and file notes for the fee earners.
* Setting up new appointments, answering telephone calls, and speaking to clients and solicitors.
* Good organisational skills.
* Joining team meetings and making suggestions for more efficient administration.
* Assisting with new precedents.
* Liaising with other members of the admin team.
* Digital dictation (BigHand).
* High degree of autonomy and self-organisation.
* Ensuring files are fully time recorded for billing.
* Assisting other fee earners within the team.
* Providing cover for other secretaries in their absence.
* Initial point of contact, taking new enquiry calls, booking appointments, and managing diaries.
* Opening and closing files.
* Scanning daily post and general filing.
* Dealing with Will and document requests.
* Drafting generic letters (Client Care Letters, initial letters to banks advising of deaths).
* Drafting SEV forms and notices of renunciation.
Skills Required:
* Previous experience of working within the legal sector.
* Experience in drafting basic Lasting Power of Attorneys (LPAs) and Wills.
* Excellent telephone manner, typing skills, and use of digital dictation.
* Highly motivated and organised.
* Willingness to take on new tasks.
* Proactive and using initiative.
* Efficient.
* Able to prioritise workloads of different fee earners.
Benefits:
* Competitive salary.
* Work-life balance.
* Hybrid working available.
* 25 days holiday plus statutory, plus extra days for long service.
* An extra day's holiday for your birthday.
* 2 x days off for Life Admin Days.
* Health Scheme.
* 2 x Non-Contractual Bonuses per year.
* Pension.
* Christmas party get-togethers.
If you are an experienced Legal Secretary interested in this role, please apply as soon as possible!
CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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