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Legal Secretary Family and Litigation

Ideal Personnel and Recruitment Solutions
Posted 17 hours ago, valid for 3 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 has a permanent vacancy for an experienced Secretary to join their busy team.

The role will provide support primarily to the Family Law team - who deal with a wide range of matters including Divorce, Child Arrangements, Pre and Post Nuptial agreements and more.

The successful candidate will enjoy working in a small but friendly and busy team and will be keen to get tucked into a busy secretarial workload.

The Role

  1. Typing correspondence to clients, other firms of solicitors etc
  2. Typing and completing complete legal documents
  3. Keeping an up-to-date diary for the Solicitors and fee-earners. Making appointments and organising and arranging meetings
  4. Answer the telephone, taking messages and dealing with queries
  5. Deal with the post - incoming and outgoing
  6. Setting up new files, closing and archiving files and sending for storage
  7. Dealing with accounts - typing client’s bills, completing timesheets, organising the raising of payments and expenses
  8. Undertaking other admin duties including photocopying, filing etc
Skills / Experience

Excellent typing skills

Preferred experience of working within a legal environment

Excellent communication and client facing skills

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.