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Title: ESG & Impact Legal Secretary (12 Month FTC)
Location: London Liverpool St/Fenchurch St
Hybrid: Yes
Salary: Competitive
Ryder Reid Legal is recruiting for a dynamic Legal Secretary to join the ESG practice of one of our prestigious, global law firm clients on a 12 month fixed term contract at their London office. In this role, you'll perform a variety of secretarial and administrative duties for firm attorneys. You'll maintain positive contact with clients, attorneys, and staff, ensuring confidentiality of client matters.
Key Responsibilities:
- Communicate effectively and establish good working relationships.
- Anticipate the needs of attorneys with excellent attention to detail.
- Follow document processing methods, create, spell check, edit, and proofread work product.
- Transcribe from handwritten materials and dictation.
- Maintain calendar and deadline reminder systems.
- Organize and prioritize telephone calls, mail, documents, and projects.
- Schedule and organize meetings, conferences, and departmental activities.
- Book travel/accommodation arrangements and process travel expenses.
- Maintain e-filing and records management systems.
- Open new files, maintain client and general files, and prepare files for storage.
- Update client contacts using the Client Relationship Management system (CRM).
- Ensure timely entry of attorneys' weekly timesheets.
- Provide administrative support for partners and attorneys.
- Work closely with administrative support staff and provide additional support during absences.
- Perform overload document work requests, filing, and photocopying.
- Participate in team, departmental, and Firm-wide meetings.
Qualifications:
- Ideally 2 years' legal secretarial experience.
- Excellent English language and grammar skills.
- Strong organizational and prioritization skills.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel; Visio a plus.
Due to the high volume of applications, we are not able to respond to all enquiries. If you have not received a response within 72 hours, please assume you have not been shortlisted at this stage, however thank you for taking the time to apply.
Ryder Reid Legal is a recruitment specialist. For almost thirty years we've been connecting legal talent with many of the leading law firms in London and internationally. Follow our LinkedIn page for the latest vacancies.
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