Legal Secretary

Job description:

We currently have an opportunity for Legal Secretaries/ Personal Assistant’s and Executive Assistants with excellent companies and law firms.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Secretarial support to fee-earners as required, ensuring that documentation and correspondence are produced to a high standard, in accordance with houses style and to tight deadlines.
• Assisting with weekly time entry on Aderant Expert for Fee Earners.
• Billing; drafting narratives from Work In Progress Reports [Aderant Expert] and computing figures.
• Follow-up with relevant Fee Earners to ensure all time is captured.
• Processing signed off bills with Accounts.
• Preparation of Transaction bills to clients’ specifications.
• Dealing with telephone queries and ensuring that such queries are handled in a professional, courteous and prompt manner.
• Organising travel arrangements.
• Ensuring electronic and hard copy filing is up to date.
• Suggesting improvements/amendments to systems and procedures.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills:

• 1+ years experience as a Legal Secretary/Legal Personal Assistant/Executive Assistant
• Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• Excellent numerical skills and attention to detail.
• A high degree of discretion and the ability to work with sensitive and confidential data.
• Good time management skills, the ability to manage a busy workload and meet required deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively in a professional manner with all levels of the business.
• A positive attitude, the ability to take ownership and responsibility for the completion of tasks and the ability to take and demonstrate initiative.
• Minimum 65 wpm.

Education

The successful candidate will have:

• Preferably a Secretarial Course or Legal Course

Salary:

Excellent remuneration packages available