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Legal Secretary

JS Legal Recruitment Ltd
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 20 days
Location

Manningtree, Essex CO111JQ, England

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

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  • Our client, a well-established multi-office firm of solicitors, is seeking an experienced Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary for their Residential Property department in Manningtree.
  • The role involves providing secretarial support to a Solicitor, managing calls, processing new business opportunities, and handling client queries.
  • Candidates should have at least 1 year of recent Residential Property Legal Secretarial experience and possess fast and accurate audio typing skills.
  • The position offers a salary of £25,000 to £30,000 per annum, depending on experience.
  • Working hours are Monday to Thursday from 9am to 5:15pm and Friday from 9am to 5:00pm.

Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary

Our client a well-established multi- office firm of solicitors ,are recruiting for an experienced Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary to join their Residential Property department based in Manningtree.

As a Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary you will provide secretarial support to one Solicitor.

The Role

  • To provide secretarial support to the Residential Property Solicitor
  • Screening incoming calls
  • Dealing with new business opportunities so that these are processed efficiently helping to ensure the continued success of the property department
  • Audio typing using digital dictation
  • Diary management , booking rooms and arranging meetings
  • Liaise with clients, solicitors, Estate agents and mortgage lenders
  • Providing quotations , sending out client care letters
  • Deal with client queries, and take instruction from clients
  • Amend and reformat documents
  • Apply for searches using on line services including land registry
  • Using HRMC website to complete stamp duty land tax forms
  • Deal with post completion matters
  • Maintain client files, opening and closing of files
  • Maintain the filing system
  • Assist fee earners in the maintenance of client accounts
  • Cover reception as and when required

Experience required:

  • At least 1 years recent Residential Property Legal Secretarial experience desirable
  • Fast and accurate audio typing skills, including Digital dictation
  • Experience with Microsoft office , word, outlook, Excel
  • Able to prioritise and multitask
  • Excellent telephone manor
  • Possess the ability to deal with client queries when fee earners are out of the office
  • Hours Monday to Thursday 9am - 5.15pm with 1 hour lunch break , Friday 9am - 5.00pm with 1hour 15 minutes lunch break.

Apply Now

Contact Julie Sheridan at JS Legal Recruitment Ltd, quoting reference JSL2353 OR email now your cv or call for a confidential discussion.

For more information on other vacancies JS Legal recruitment Ltd are handling please visit our website.

All successful applications will be responded to within 7 working days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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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.