Legal Secretary (0271) Huddersfield, England
| Salary: | GBP24000 - GBP28000 per annum + Benefits |
Legal Secretary
Huddersfield
£24,000 – £28,000
My client an award winning Law Firm are looking to recruit a Legal Secretary to join their Private Client team, based in Huddersfield.
Main Duties:
The main purpose of this role is to support fee earners within the team and work of the department. Providing high standards of client care at all times in a professional and pleasant manner.
Main Duties
• Typing documents, emails and file notes, etc for the fee earner’s
• Setting up new appointments, answering telephone, speaking to clients and solicitors
• Good organisational skills
• Joining team meetings and making suggestions for more efficient admin
• Assisting with new precedents
• Liaising with other members of the admin team
• Digital dictation (BigHand)
• High degree of autonomy and self-organisation
• Ensuring files are fully time recorded for billing
• Assisting other fee earners within the team
• Providing cover for other secretaries in their absence
• Initial point of contact, take new enquiry calls, book appointments, diary management
• Open and close files
• Scan in daily post and general filing
• Deal with Will and document requests
• Drafting generic letters (Client Care Letters, initial letters to banks etc advising of deaths)
• Draft SEV forms and notices of renunciation
Skills Required:
• Previous experience of working within the legal sector
• Experience in drafting basic Lasting Power of Attorneys (LPAs) and Wills
• Excellent telephone manner, typing skills and use of digital dictation
• Good typing skills and use of digital dictation
• Highly motivated & organised
• Willingness to take on new tasks
• Proactive and using initiative
• Efficient
• Able to prioritise workloads of different fee earners.
Benefits
· Competitive salary
· Work life balance
· Hybrid working available.
· 25 days holiday plus statutory, plus extra days for long service.
· An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
· 2 x ½ days off for Life Admin Days
· Health Scheme
· 2 x Non -Contractual Bonuses per year
· Pension
· Christmas party get togethers.
If you are an experienced Legal Secretary interested in this role, please apply asap!
Huddersfield
£24,000 – £28,000
My client an award winning Law Firm are looking to recruit a Legal Secretary to join their Private Client team, based in Huddersfield.
Main Duties:
The main purpose of this role is to support fee earners within the team and work of the department. Providing high standards of client care at all times in a professional and pleasant manner.
Main Duties
• Typing documents, emails and file notes, etc for the fee earner’s
• Setting up new appointments, answering telephone, speaking to clients and solicitors
• Good organisational skills
• Joining team meetings and making suggestions for more efficient admin
• Assisting with new precedents
• Liaising with other members of the admin team
• Digital dictation (BigHand)
• High degree of autonomy and self-organisation
• Ensuring files are fully time recorded for billing
• Assisting other fee earners within the team
• Providing cover for other secretaries in their absence
• Initial point of contact, take new enquiry calls, book appointments, diary management
• Open and close files
• Scan in daily post and general filing
• Deal with Will and document requests
• Drafting generic letters (Client Care Letters, initial letters to banks etc advising of deaths)
• Draft SEV forms and notices of renunciation
Skills Required:
• Previous experience of working within the legal sector
• Experience in drafting basic Lasting Power of Attorneys (LPAs) and Wills
• Excellent telephone manner, typing skills and use of digital dictation
• Good typing skills and use of digital dictation
• Highly motivated & organised
• Willingness to take on new tasks
• Proactive and using initiative
• Efficient
• Able to prioritise workloads of different fee earners.
Benefits
· Competitive salary
· Work life balance
· Hybrid working available.
· 25 days holiday plus statutory, plus extra days for long service.
· An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
· 2 x ½ days off for Life Admin Days
· Health Scheme
· 2 x Non -Contractual Bonuses per year
· Pension
· Christmas party get togethers.
If you are an experienced Legal Secretary interested in this role, please apply asap!