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Legal PA

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Posted a day ago, valid for 2 days
Location

Blackpool, Lancashire FY3 8PP, England

Salary

£20,000 - £24,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • The position is for an experienced Legal Secretary at a well-established firm in Blackpool, offering a salary between £24,000 and £30,000.
  • Candidates should have extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary or Personal Assistant.
  • The role involves providing high-level support to the Managing Partner and their team, including diary management and travel arrangements.
  • Proficiency in iManage, Bighand, and Microsoft Office is required, along with strong organisational and communication skills.
  • The firm offers 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays and a competitive benefits package.
Legal PABlackpool - Hybrid£24,000 - £30,000   A fantastic, high street established Blackpool firm, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their already impressive team on a full time basis. Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Float Legal Secretary will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Secretaries, fee earners and partners to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Secretarial Duties in Blackpool.    Duties and responsibilities of the Legal PA:
  • Provide high level support to the Managing Partner
  • and their team in all different departments
  • Extensive diary management and organising complex travel arrangements 
  • Assisting partners with the daily secretarial duties such as audio typing
  • 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
  • Follows team processes and procedures when undertaking tasks
  • Any ad-hoc secretarial duties
Skills Required:
  • Extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary / Personal Assistant
  • 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 Blackpool, 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.