Private Client Legal Secretary - Kelly Services : Job Details

Are you a Legal Secretary with Private Client experience? Do you want to work for a company that value and supports its' employees? Looking for a new opportunity? If so, this could be the perfect role for you!My client, a well-known Midlands legal firm, are currently recruiting a Private Client Legal Secretary to join their team in Shirley! A competitive salary is available for the right individual.

• Salary - £26,000 pro rota DOE
• Hours - 37 hours per weel
• Location - Shirley
• 33 Days holiday - Pro Rota (Inclusive of Bank Holidays)
• Death in service
• Scottish Widows Pension
• Healthcare
• Christmas & Summer parties
• Free parking

Responsibilities:

• Diary management responsibilities including making appointments, organising meetings.
• File management responsibilities. Opening and closing files including ensuring filing systems are maintained accurately and up to date.
• Undertake e-mail management (manage inbox and file e-mails), ensuring that urgent emails are promptly picked up by fee earners, or forwarded to another fee earner in their absence.
• 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 (even those not typed personally) from initiation to delivery back to the relevant fee earner.
• 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 fee earners, including the preparation of files.

Key Skills & Experience

• Experienced Legal Secretary/PA with a minimum of 3 years' experience within a private client team is essential.
• 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.
• Sound technical skills in the following areas:
• Microsoft Office IT skills - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Proven document or case management skills.
• Proven experience of using a legal computerised finance system.

Interviews taking place immediately. Please apply

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