Owen Reed is looking to recruit a motivated and professional Junior Legal Secretary to join a top law firm in London.
We provide high-quality legal services to our UK and international clients. We are recognised as a medium-sized niche firm, specialising in commercial/corporate, civil litigation, community housing, employment, projects and property, especially in the area of social housing. Over the past few years, we have grown significantly and now have approaching 250 staff members.
Job Purpose:
To provide comprehensive secretarial and admin support to the team and help meet client expectations in line with the department’s objectives.
Duties:
1. Obtaining title information and submitting SIM/priority searches at the Land Registry;
2. Producing engrossment documents and sending these out to the relevant people;
3. Producing cover letters for completions or engrossments;
4. General administrative support for the department e.g. filing, photocopying, monitoring post;
5. Receiving phone calls from clients, routing them or taking messages as appropriate, liaising with external clients;
6. Producing bills and dealing with invoices;
7. Assisting fee-earners with the opening of new files;
8. Additional support on a wide range of tasks as part of the secretary pool systems;
9. To provide cover and support to the other secretaries within the team as and when required....