This role sits in our Real Estate team, which encompasses environment, project planning, real estate finance and real estate litigation. The team advise on every stage of the life cycle of property, with areas of expertise including construction, development, energy and infrastructure, hotel and leisure, investment, landlord and tenant matters, planning, environment and compulsory purchase, property litigation, real estate finance and real estate tax.
Responsibilities
1. Diary management responsibilities including making appointments, organising meetings, and ensuring the smooth running of such meetings including ordering refreshments etc. as appropriate.
2. File management responsibilities. Opening and closing files including ensuring electronic filing systems are maintained accurately and up to date. Undertake e-mail management (manage inbox and file e-mails), ensuring that urgent emails are promptly picked up by fee earners, or forwarded to another fee earner in their absence.
3. Proactive client liaison including take messages, pass on information and deal with simple queries.
4. Work collaboratively with other secretarial support to provide a responsive and professional secretarial support service to fee earners and clients including supporting additional fee earners during PA holidays and sickness.
5. Management and co-ordination of the Partners’ billing and financial requirements including producing WIP and age...