Legal Secretary - Wrigleys Solicitors : Job Details

We’re seeking a proactive and professional Legal Secretary to provide high-level administrative and secretarial support to our Court of Protection and Personal Injury Trust team.  What We Can Offer YouLife outside work matters. We promote work-life balance, offer agile working, and prioritise colleague wellbeing. Your health and happiness are important to us.Along with a competitive salary, you will receive a range of benefits including agile working, enhanced family friendly benefits, generous holiday entitlement & a holiday purchase scheme, an employee assistance programme, a pension scheme, life assurance, group income protection, wellness initiatives and private medical insurance. About UsWrigleys is a well-established, reputable firm of specialist Solicitors and we have offices in Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle. We represent clients across the UK and are considered as one of the leading expert practices outside of London. Here at Wrigleys we pride ourselves on providing a specialist legal services to our clients within a professional yet friendly and authentic environment.What you’ll be doing as Legal Secretary:

• Providing full secretarial support to include word processing, regular and accurate filing, archiving, faxing, emailing, photocopying.
• Handling telephone enquiries, diary and meeting coordination, travel arrangements, and expense claims.
• Using Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, and legal software including Aderant, Big Hand, Liberate, iManage, and Oyez.
• Drafting routine documents and correspondence.
• Maintaining and updating filing systems, both electronic and paper-based and in compliance with Lexcel guidance.
• Maintaining time recording on all client matters and to arrange for the chargeable time recorded to be put into the firm's computerised time recording system daily.
• Acting as a first point of contact for clients and third parties with professionalism and discretion.
• Supporting colleagues through holiday/sickness cover and contributing to a collaborative team environment.

We’re looking for a Legal Secretary with:

• Previous secretarial experience within professional services.
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications such as Teams, Word and Excel.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels
• High level of accuracy, attention to detail
• Competent numeric skills including a basic understanding of accounts and billing.
• Able to use own initiative and take responsibility for a task to ensure that work is completed to a high standard (to include developing and introducing efficiencies and more effective ways of working).
• Highly organised, able to prioritise, anticipate, plan-ahead and problem solve.
• Adaptable, willing and capable of working flexibly and as part of a team.

Our culture is built on our purpose of putting people at the centre of what we do, and our values guide us in all aspects of our work with clients and each other. Together with our supportive leadership team, we offer a collegiate culture where everyone has a voice, and we encourage collaboration, innovation, and growth. This positive environment helps us maintain exceptional colleague retention levels.Application processOur selection process for the Legal Secretary position is transparent. We prioritise keeping all candidates informed at every step, ensuring there is no uncertainty. We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition and need us to make adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please do let us know by contacting our recruitment team.Equality and DiversityIndividual differences are embraced at Wrigleys, and by putting people at the centre of we do, we strive to create an inclusive working environment in which colleagues feel supported and can be themselves.