Job Description
Role: Legal Secretary
Job Type: Full time, Permanent
Salary: Starting salary is £24,000 per annum
Location: Southampton
Hours: 09:00 – 17:00 with an hour for lunch, 5 hours per week (working 3 days in the office and 2 days from home)
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a dynamic and forward-thinking law firm as a Legal Secretary. In this role you will provide admin and secretarial support to the Senior Paralegals and Trademark Attorneys in the Trade Mark team.
Securing this job will give the successful candidate an opportunity to demonstrate their previously acquired skills in administration and accuracy, and to progress and grow their career within a legal environment.
Duties for the Legal Secretary:
* Assisting paralegals with administrative tasks including the filing and acknowledgment of emails.
* Providing secretarial support including preparing specification amendments (electronically in Microsoft Word or manual amendments from paper copies), generating standard letters and invoices.
* Creating, running and amending standard and ad hoc reports in excel.
* Uploading documents to in-house and client specific systems.
* Under supervision, helping with daily and weekly reminders, allocating them to the correct Patent Attorneys or Paralegals.
* Completing set tasks, remembering to amend according to client peculiarities and the specifics of the matter when necessary.
* Assisting paralegals to meet urgent internal and legal deadlines.
* Learning paralegal procedures and applying what has been learnt in order to deal with incoming paralegal work without supervision.
About you:
* College or degree level education
* Previous administrative experience
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Organised and able to follow processes and procedures
* High levels of accuracy and attention to detail
If you are interested in the Legal Secretary position, please send us your CV by applying now.
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