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Private Client Legal Secretary

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Posted 3 days ago, valid for 7 days
Location

Birmingham, West Midlands B27 6QS, England

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position is for a Legal Secretary in the Private Client department located in Birmingham with a salary that is negotiable.
  • The firm is looking for an experienced candidate with extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary, particularly in Private Client work.
  • Key responsibilities include providing high-level support to partners, managing diaries, and organizing complex travel arrangements.
  • Candidates should have strong proficiency in iManage, Bighand, and Microsoft Office, along with excellent organizational and communication skills.
  • The role offers competitive benefits including 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, and a hybrid working option.

Legal Secretary - Private ClientBirminghamSalary Negotiable A fantastic, leading firm in Birmingham, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their already impressive Private Client team.Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Secretary will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Secretaries, Administrators and Coordinators to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Secretarial Duties in Birmingham.

This role offers a competitive hybrid working option. Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Secretary in Private Client:

  • Provide high level support to partners and fee earners working closely with the partner and their team in the Private Client 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 with experience in Private Client.
  • 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

The firm are offering 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a range of competitive benefits. If you are an experienced Legal Secretary, based in or near Birmingham, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.