Legal Secretary / Legal Administrator

Overview:

Working directly for the departmental lead Partner, and supporting the wider team.

Reporting to:

Partner

Key responsibilities:

• File opening and closing, ensuring compliance with ISO & Lexcel standards
• Primary point of contact for incoming phone calls for the department, including triage and call backs
• Organise Partner’s diary, including making appointments and ensuring preparations are complete for meetings.
• Set up consultations with third parties, i.e., Counsel.
• Drafting bills and initial credit control procedure
• Assisting with LAMS applications and responses.
• Liaise with Costs drawer
• Support continued development of CMS to enable paperless working
• Support the wider team with administrative tasks

• 35 hr working week Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm.
• 25 days plus stat annual leave allowance
• Employee Health Plan
• Death in service benefit
• Employer contributed pension scheme

Essential skills

• Proven experience managing Client facing tasks and priorities
• Effective communicator with high standard of Client service approach
• Conscientious, taking responsibility for own work
• Experience in Family & Matrimonial law desirable but not necessary
• Well organised and methodical with a high attention to detail
• An aptitude for managing multiple priorities, producing documents and Client communications to a high standard
• Advances knowledge of working with a legal CMS and supporting Microsoft Office
• Positive can-do attitude