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Legal Secretary

Career Legal
Posted a day ago, valid for 20 days
Location

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland NE19 2BG, England

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • A busy commercial law firm with around 150 Solicitors is seeking a confident and organised Legal Secretary to join their support team, with the option for remote work.
  • The Legal Secretary will provide professional secretarial and administrative support to Fee Earners across all commercial practice areas.
  • Candidates must have a minimum of 2 years of legal secretarial experience and be able to transcribe legal documents and correspondence.
  • The role includes tasks such as billing, maintaining filing systems, and preparing legal documents.
  • Salary details are not specified, but successful candidates will receive the full job description upon application.

We are working with a very successful, busy commercial law firm who have around 150 Solicitors operating on a fee sharing model/consultancy basis across the country, they are actively seeking a confident and organised Legal Secretary to join their support team, with the option to work fully remote.

The Legal Secretary will be required to provide professional secretarial and administrative support to Fee Earners working across all commercial practice areas.

The role will focus on (not limited to):

  • Transcribe from handwritten materials and/or dictation
  • End to end billing
  • Maintain filing and records management systems.
  • Prepare legal documents and provides administrative support for Partners and Fee Earners to whom assigned.
  • General admin tasks i.e. paper and electronic filing, scanning and amending documents Other related duties and projects as required Communication

Experience/Skills/Qualifications:

A minimum of 2 years legal secretarial experience in order to gain an understanding of law office policies and procedures. Ability to transcribe legal documents, correspondence and reports from rough draft or dictation, highly organised and able to work under pressure.

The above is not an exhaustive list of the role’s responsibilities. Successful candidates will receive the full job description.

MUST be based in the UK.

If this Legal Secretary role sounds of interest, please apply now!

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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.