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Legal Secretary Commercial Property Agriculture & Estates

Ideal Personnel and Recruitment Solutions
Posted a day ago, valid for 23 days
Location

Northampton, Northamptonshire NN68AX, England

Salary

£20,000 - £24,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client is seeking a full-time Legal Secretary to join their Commercial Property Agriculture and Estates team.
  • The ideal candidate should possess excellent secretarial skills and have previous experience in a similar role.
  • Responsibilities include providing administrative support, drafting legal documents, and managing client communications.
  • The position requires strong organizational skills, high computer literacy, and attention to detail.
  • The salary for this role is competitive, and candidates should ideally have at least 2 years of relevant experience.

Our client has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join their Commercial Property Agriculture and Estates team. The position is full time and office based.

This friendly team is looking for someone with excellent secretarial skills to support with a range of tasks in a timely and efficient way. You will be responsible for providing an efficient secretarial and administrative service to fee earners and teams within the firm.

You will be a team player with a strong work ethic and have the ability to effectively communicate with colleagues and clients alike. You should also have a good level of IT literacy and be confident in learning about and using systems and software.

Some of your duties will include:

  • Performing a variety of administrative duties;
  • Communicating with fee earners and clients;
  • Drafting and completing letters, emails and legal documents;
  • Transcribing and proof reading letters, emails and other correspondence;
  • Document creation including copy typing manuscript amendments to documents and producing new versions of documents, preparing comparisons against previous versions and using track changes;
  • Accurate typing from dictation;
  • Answering the telephone professionally, taking accurate messages from clients and other contacts;
  • Making appointments on behalf of the fee earners when requested and servicing meetings including booking conference rooms and provision of refreshments for the fee earners and clients;
  • Dealing with administrative tasks, including scanning, printing, storage of deeds and photocopying;
  • Preparing engrossments of legal documents for signing;
  • Involvement in the efficient management of client/matter files to include general filing, ID checks, preparing client engagement letters and terms and conditions; and
  • Supporting fee earners with accounting and billing processes, as well as managing queries.

Requirements:

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills;
  • Excellent organisational, time management and problem solving skills;
  • Strong written and oral communication skills;
  • High computer literacy with the ability to support others;
  • Ability to deal with legal documents including occasional unfamiliar tasks;
  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy; and
  • Ideally previous experience as a legal Secretary

Due to the large number of responses we receive it is not always possible to respond to every application straight away. Should your skills and experience be a match for this role, or any other vacancy we may have, we will normally contact you within 72 hours of receiving your application. If you wish to apply for further roles please do so.

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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.