Kennedys is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our Bristol office. The successful Legal Secretary will provide an efficient, proactive and comprehensive secretarial service to a busy team of fee earners.
If the following job requirements and experience match your skills, please ensure you apply promptly.
Team
Kennedys' professional liability team deal with all areas of professional liability and handle claims of all sizes and complexity, including insurers who underwrite some of the world's largest financial institutions, global law firms, the 'Big Four' accounting firms, as well as insurers who underwrite regional, local and smaller institutions and firms.
Key responsibilities
Thorough diary management arrange meetings and manage changes as and when they arise
Arrange travel for fee earners and partners both nationally and internationally and process all related expenses
Report, and assist in resolving, any IT issues for self, fee earners and partners
Build relationships with clients, including responding to clients specific requests for information and going the extra mile to assist them
Assist proactively with billing and credit control queries.
Creating electronic court bundles including preparing the index
Gathering/sorting documents for bundle
Paginating and hyper-linking court bundles
Submitting court documents via the e-file portal
Preparing exhibits to witness statements
Cross referencing witness statements
Preparation of standard correspondence
Drafting court forms
Responding to insolvency practitioners with financial information to assist with preparation of annual reports (the financial information is extracted from elite)
Required experience
Previous legal secretarial experience
Fast and accurate touch typing skills
Proficient in MS Office packages
Knowledge of case management systems.
Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.
*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.
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