Legal Secretary

Legal Secretary Vacancy

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join our growing business, based in Barnsley. Due to this role being purely an administration/secretarial role we are not accepting any LLB Candidates.

Your Role:
The prime role of a legal secretary is to provide cost effective support to fee earners within the team and work of the department. To exercise high standards of client care at all times in a professional and pleasant manner. To ensure confidentiality and security of all the firm’s and client documentation and information. To maintain clear and precise communication with other personnel within the firm. To ensure good working relationships with external institutions and organisations. To undertake any reasonable task as requested.

Your responsibilities will include:
• 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

Person specification - key skills/qualifications required:
• The ideal candidate will need previous experience of working within the legal sector
• Experiencing 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
• Highly organised
• Willingness to take on new tasks
• Proactive and using initiative
• Efficient
• Able to prioritise workloads of different fee earners.

Our offer
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.

Equal Opportunity
An equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, colour, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, disability, age pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or any other consideration prohibited by law.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: Depending on experience