Legal Secretary

Location: CambridgeType: Full-time, Permanent

Our client a top50 law firm are seeking a legal secretary within their Employment department in Cambridge. We are seeking an articulate and forward-thinking Legal Secretary to provide professional, proactive, and high-level administrative support to a small group of busy, ambitious fee earners.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor fee earners' inboxes daily and manage the inbox of junior staff during holidays.
• Manage diaries, including bringing urgent items to attention and maintaining a streamlined inbox.
• Coordinate meetings, meeting rooms, car park spaces, lunches, dinners, and transport arrangements.
• Assist with business development events.
• Format, paginate, number, and present documents in house style.
• Proofread all work.
• General PA duties, including booking restaurants and accommodation.
• Maintain and update client and other relevant contact details on our client database.
• Respond to internal and external telephone enquiries professionally.
• Support other members of the secretarial team and provide cover as necessary.

About You:

• Strong proactive administration and/or secretarial experience.
• Positive, enthusiastic, and professional approach.
• Strong attention to detail, high-level organisational skills, and reliability.
• Self-motivated with the ability to use initiative and a desire to learn.
• Flexibility to manage new tasks and work at pace when needed.
• Ability to create positive impressions and relationships with clients.
• Ability to liaise closely and seamlessly with colleagues in other offices and build good working relationships.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays (rising with service up to a maximum of 30 days).
• Long Service holiday award – 1 extra week every 10 years of continuous service.
• Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed).
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% employee).
• Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme.
• Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share).
• Life Assurance - 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance.
• Paid CSR Day.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave.
• Subsidised gym membership.
• Electric car scheme.
• Agile/Hybrid Working Policy.
• Dress for your Day Policy.

Interested?

Please call Michelle Topley on or email your CV to . Alternatively apply online.