Legal Secretary

Kennedys is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our team in our Insurance division based in our Belfast office. The successful Legal Secretary will provide an efficient, proactive and comprehensive secretarial service to a busy team of fee earners.

Team

Kennedys' Northern Ireland office in Belfast is the only pure litigation practice in the jurisdiction with a focus on the insurance industry, advising on coverage, defence and recovery matters.

We advise on regulatory matters, defend clients in health and safety prosecutions and appear at coronial inquiries. We defend liability actions from catastrophic claims to everyday employers' and public liability, and road traffic accident claims.

We provide expert advice on professional negligence matters within financial services, construction (architects, engineers, and quantity surveyors), healthcare (medical facilities and professionals), real estate and insurance (brokers) and employment law.

Key responsibilities

• Thorough diary management arrange meetings and manage changes as and when they arise
• Arrange travel for fee earners and partners both nationally and internationally and process all related expenses
• Report, and assist in resolving, any IT issues for self, fee earners and partners
• Build relationships with clients, including responding to client's specific requests for information and going the extra mile to assist them
• Assist proactively with billing and credit control queries.
• Creating electronic court bundles including preparing the index
• Gathering/sorting documents for bundle
• Paginating and hyper-linking court bundles
• Submitting court documents via the e-file portal
• Preparing exhibits to witness statements
• Cross referencing witness statements
• Preparation of standard correspondence
• Drafting court forms
• Responding to insolvency practitioners with financial information to assist with preparation of annual reports (the financial information is extracted from elite)

Required experience

• Previous legal secretarial experience
• Fast and accurate touch-typing skills
• Proficient in MS Office packages
• Knowledge of case management systems.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.