legal secretary - private client
Responsibility
- diary management responsibilities including making appointments, organising meetings
- triage of new clients across the 5 strong team
- file management responsibilities. Opening and closing files including ensuring filing systems are maintained accurately and up to date
Show more +11 - proactive client liaison including taking messages, passing on information and dealing with simple queries
- work collaboratively with other secretarial support to provide a responsive and professional secretarial support service to fee earners and clients
- management and co-ordination of the fee earners' billing and financial requirements
- audio and copy typing of legal documentation and correspondence, to a high standard
- manage the production of all documents from initiation to delivery back to the relevant fee earner
- undertake e-mail management , ensuring that urgent emails are promptly picked up by fee earners, or forwarded to another fee earner in their absence
- organising conference or meetings calls on behalf of the fee earner
- preparing client engagement letters, conflict and money laundering checks at the direction of the fee earner
- dealing with and filing and storing Wills and forms i.e HMRC
- responsible for copying, scanning, faxing required by the fee earner, including the preparation of files
- an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team as a Legal Secretary/PA to the Director responsible for our busy Private Client Department of our Darlington office
Requirements
- experienced Legal Secretary/PA with a minimum of 3 years' experience essential and preferably within private client
- must possess excellent diary management, organisation and prioritisation skills
- must be able to communicate effectively and build good relationships with clients and staff within the firm
Show more +2 - proven document or case management skills
- legal secretarial: 3 years
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