Legal Secretary

Harwood Recruitment Solutions Limited

Posted 7 hours ago, valid for 11 days

Hassocks, West Sussex BN6 9NA, England

Full Time

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance

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Sonic Summary

A leading Law firm in Hassocks is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to join their busy Real Estate team.
The ideal candidate should have previous legal secretarial experience and excellent communication skills, with a salary of £25,000 to £30,000 per year.
Key responsibilities include preparing correspondence and reports, completing standard forms, and handling Land Registry applications and searches.
Additional duties involve managing telephone enquiries, opening and closing files, and performing basic accounting tasks.
The firm offers 25 days of holiday plus additional benefits such as life assurance, private healthcare, and a pension scheme.

A leading Law firm in Hassocks is looking for an experienced Legal secretary to join their fast paced and busy Real estate team, the ideal candidate will have previous Legal secretarial experience and excellent communication skills.

Duties will include -

Preparation of correspondence, reports, memos, forms and bills from digital dictation, manuscript and precedents in compliance with the company
Completion of standard forms without fee earner assistance and production of standard letters without dictation;
Preparing applications for registration at Land Registry and carrying out Land Registry searches and local authority searches;
Deal with general telephone enquiries, take telephone calls in absence of fee earner and report to fee earner, receive and relay messages to and from clients and other professionals on behalf of fee earner;
Open files using Ignite file opening system, generate initial client letters and engagement summary (the Welcome Pack) and once approved send to client with all relevant enclosures e.g. Sale/Purchase Questionnaires, Property forms, etc.
Close files using standard procedures, maintain an efficient filing system and review files to identify where follow up action required;
Comply with office procedures for word processing file management;
Carry out basic accounting transactions and deal with financial queries;
Prepare completion statements and invoices, assist in preparation and submission of Stamp Duty Land tax returns;
Scanning incoming documents to electronic files;
Dealing with accounts and obtain partner’s signature on financial CHAPS/BACS dockets.

Benefits -

25 days holiday (of which 3.5 are taken during the Christmas period), plus Birthday holiday, plus Bank Holidays.
Life Assurance
Private Healthcare
Employee Assistance Programme
Sodexo Discounts
Pension Scheme
Interest free season ticket loans
Cycle to work scheme
Discounts on Legal work

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