Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join their Commercial Property Agriculture and Estates team. The position is full time and office based.
This friendly team is looking for someone with excellent secretarial skills to support with a range of tasks in a timely and efficient way. You will be responsible for providing an efficient secretarial and administrative service to fee earners and teams within the firm.
You will be a team player with a strong work ethic and have the ability to effectively communicate with colleagues and clients alike. You should also have a good level of IT literacy and be confident in learning about and using systems and software.
Some of your duties will include:
* Performing a variety of administrative duties;
* Communicating with fee earners and clients;
* Drafting and completing letters, emails and legal documents;
* Transcribing and proof reading letters, emails and other correspondence;
* Document creation including copy typing manuscript amendments to documents and producing new versions of documents, preparing comparisons against previous versions and using track changes;
* Accurate typing from dictation;
* Answering the telephone professionally, taking accurate messages from clients and other contacts;
* Making appointments on behalf of the fee earners when requested and servicing meetings including booking conference rooms and provision of refreshments for the fee ea...