A leading Law firm in Hassocks is looking for an experienced Legal secretary to join their fast paced and busy Real estate team, the ideal candidate will have previous Legal secretarial experience and excellent communication skills.
Duties will include -
1. Preparation of correspondence, reports, memos, forms and bills from digital dictation, manuscript and precedents in compliance with the company
2. Completion of standard forms without fee earner assistance and production of standard letters without dictation;
3. Preparing applications for registration at Land Registry and carrying out Land Registry searches and local authority searches;
4. Deal with general telephone enquiries, take telephone calls in absence of fee earner and report to fee earner, receive and relay messages to and from clients and other professionals on behalf of fee earner;
5. Open files using Ignite file opening system, generate initial client letters and engagement summary (the Welcome Pack) and once approved send to client with all relevant enclosures e.g. Sale/Purchase Questionnaires, Property forms, etc.
6. Close files using standard procedures, maintain an efficient filing system and review files to identify where follow up action required;
7. Comply with office procedures for word processing file management;
8. Carry out basic accounting transactions and deal with financial queries;
9. Pre...