Float Legal Secretary – Dublin

Job title:

Float Legal Secretary – Dublin

Company

DAC Beachcroft

Job description

DAC Beachcroft Dublin is looking to recruit a Float Legal Secretary to work within the office assisting teams in general. We are seeking a secretary who is accustomed to working in a busy environment, ideally supporting a variety of teams. Experience as a Legal Secretary is desirable, however if you have administrative experience then please do apply as full training will be provided.This is a full-time, permanent, office based role in our offices in Dublin 4.We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert. If this applies to you contact in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the team will be in touch.We are happy to talk flexible working and have in place a Flex-forward working scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.Role Responsibility

• Preparing correspondence and documents from digital dictation
• Preparing briefs
• Creating, amending and formatting legal documents and templates with a high degree of accuracy
• Updating the MI databases
• File management, including/both physical and electronic filing, scanning, photocopying and archiving
• Liaising with experts/counsel
• Arranging meetings/consultations
• Diary management
• Assist with expense claims
• Booking of meeting rooms
• Issuing large documents such as briefs to Counsel/experts via OneDrive
• Billing preparation and issuing bills to clients
• Debt collection
• Booking travel

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience of working as a Legal Secretary is desirable, but not essential as full training will be given
• Strong dictation experience is highly advantageous
• A minimum of 60 wpm is essential
• Proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF Docs and OneDrive is essential
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential
• Excellent administration skills
• Ability to work on one’s own initiative
• Ability to draft correspondence when asked to do so
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to prioritise large workloads
• Ability to multi-task and work to strict deadlines
• Team orientated and collaborative with a flexible attitude
• Professional telephone manner and excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• The candidate should have a positive, helpful and cheerful attitude
• Experience of preparing briefs is desirable

About the CompanyWe’re a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We’re market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we’re market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.Working with usOur vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals. Whilst we do work with recruitment agencies, we will formally release those vacancies to instructed agencies deemed best placed to assist us. Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and no introduction fee will be applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at .

Expected salary

Location

Dublin

Job date

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 05:44:17 GMT

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