family Legal Secretary

Job title:

family Legal Secretary

Company

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment

Job description

Greater Manchester – Salary negotiable based on experience Legal Secretary – Family
Oldham
Salary NegotiableA fantastic, leading firm in Oldham, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their Family team.Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Secretary in Family:

  • Provide high level support to partners and fee earners working closely with the partner and their team in the Family Department
  • Extensive diary management and organising complex travel arrangements for a lot of overseas travel for partners
  • Assisting partners with the daily secretarial duties such as managing bundles
  • Plays an active role in knowledge sharing to ensure growth and development
  • Assists the partner in providing them with effective and high quality secretarial support
  • Undertakes all aspects of the role using the most appropriate tools and resources for the task to meet deadlines
  • Demonstrates flexibility and proactively contribute to the team’s success by actively seeking to improve working processes
  • Ensures all work is undertaken in the correct priority order
  • Communicates with Team Coordinators/Team Leaders to keep them appraised of a task’s status
  • Follows team processes and procedures when undertaking tasks
  • Collaborates with team members on team processes, procedures and solutions – ensuring more junior members of the team understand and adhere to these
  • Actively participates in team meetings

Skills Required:

  • Extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary
  • Have a strong working knowledge of iManage and Bighand or similar tools
  • IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Lync – Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams
  • Detailed and strong working knowledge of and high level of proficiency in Elite billing
  • Exemplary document management and filing
  • Excellent telephone manner
  • Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
  • Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
  • Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members

If you have the relevant experience, please send your CV to georgia@ Douglas-scott.co.uk for immediate consideration

Expected salary

Location

Greater Manchester

Job date

Sat, 31 Aug 2024 02:47:58 GMT

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