- Provide full secretarial support to fee earners, including diary management, document preparation, and client liaison.
- Dictation typing and preparing correspondence, documents, and forms.
- Assist in the administration of wills, probate, and trusts, ensuring compliance with legal processes.
- Manage correspondence, filing, and maintaining client records.
- Handle telephone and email inquiries from clients and external parties.
- Proven 1-2 years’ experience as a Legal Secretary within Private Client department.
- Excellent typing skills, able to quickly and accurately process legal documents, including correspondence and bills, from manuscript or digital dictation, with minimal supervision.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize a busy workload.
- Experience of Tikit (or similar case management system) and BigHand dictation would be advantageous but not essential.
- Good telephone manner; able to take messages from new and existing clients on the telephone with accuracy and pass on in a timely manner.
- Excellent IT skills with the ability to pick up new systems quickly.
- Displays a can-do, positive attitude to work, and a high degree of self-management.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a professional telephone manner.
- A keen eye for detail and a high level of accuracy in all work.
- Ability to work well as part of a team and independently.
- Dictaphone / Audio typing experience
- 1 year of experience in Wills, Probate and Trusts Administration
- Secretarial Background
- Can work on-site all 5 days.