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Conveyancing Legal Secretary, West Midlands
Client:
Clayton Legal
Location:
West Midlands, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Other
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Reference:
8a07dbe741ee
Job Views:
8
Posted:
03.03.2025
Expiry Date:
17.04.2025
Job Description:
Conveyancing Legal Secretary
A fantastic, leading law firm, known to us as a client for many years, is keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their already impressive Conveyancing team.
Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Secretary will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Secretaries, Fee Earners, and Partners to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Secretarial Duties in Wolverhampton.
Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Secretary in Conveyancing:
* Provide high level support to partners and fee earners working closely with the partner and their team in the Conveyancing department.
* Extensive diary management and organising complex travel arrangements for a lot of overseas travel for partners.
* Assisting partners with daily secretarial duties such as managing bundles.
* Plays an active role in knowledge sharing to ensure growth and development.
* Assists the partner in providing them with effective and high quality secretarial support.
* Undertakes all aspects of the role using the most appropriate tools and resources for the task to meet deadlines.
* Demonstrates flexibility and proactively contributes to the team’s success by actively seeking to improve working processes.
* Ensures all work is undertaken in the correct priority order.
* Communicates with Team Coordinators/Team Leaders to keep them appraised of a task’s status.
* Follows team processes and procedures when undertaking tasks.
* Collaborates with team members on team processes, procedures, and solutions – ensuring more junior members of the team understand and adhere to these.
* Actively participates in team meetings.
Skills Required:
* Extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary – Conveyancing experience is essential.
* At least 3 years solid experience.
* IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Lync – Skype for Business, and Microsoft Teams.
* Detailed and strong working knowledge of and high level of proficiency in Elite billing.
* Exemplary document management and filing.
* Excellent telephone manner.
* Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
* Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions.
* Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members.
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