Legal Secretary - Agriculture & Estates
Location: Northampton
Salary: £25,000 per annum DOE
Hours: Full time Monday - Friday, Office based
ACS have collaborated with another leading firm within the legal world to support in the recruitment of a legal secretary to join their Agriculture & Estates team. If you don't have experience within this area of law, commercial property experience is also welcomed, as well as legal secretaries with a strong employment history who would like to transfer into a new area of law!
What the job entails:
1. Performing a variety of administrative duties;
2. Communicating with fee earners and clients;
3. Drafting and completing letters, emails and legal documents;
4. Transcribing and proofreading letters, emails and other correspondence;
5. Document creation including copy typing manuscript amendments to documents and producing new versions of documents, preparing comparisons against previous versions and using track changes;
6. Accurate typing from dictation;
7. Answering the telephone professionally, taking accurate messages from clients and other contacts;
8. Making appointments on behalf of the fee earners when requested and servicing meetings including booking conference rooms and provision of refreshments for the fee earners and clients;
9. Dealing with administrative tasks, including scanning, printing, storage of deeds and photocopying;
10. Preparing engrossments of legal documents for signing;
11. Involvement in the efficient management of client/matter files to include general filing, ID checks, preparing client engagement letters and terms and conditions;
12. Supporting fee earners with accounting and billing processes, as well as managing queries.
A little about you:
1. Excellent written and oral communication skills;
2. Excellent organisational, time management and problem-solving skills;
3. Strong written and oral communication skills;
4. High computer literacy with the ability to support others;
5. Ability to deal with legal documents including occasional unfamiliar tasks;
6. Strong attention to detail and accuracy;
7. Ideally previous experience as a legal secretary.
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