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Legal Secretary

AJ Chambers
Posted 15 days ago, valid for 11 days
Location

Norwich, Norfolk NR8 6PW, England

Salary

£20,000 - £30,000 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • AJ Chambers is partnering with a leading national law firm to hire a Legal Secretary for their Real Estate team in Norwich, focusing on both commercial and residential property.
  • The role involves document creation, accurate typing from dictation, managing appointments, and handling various administrative tasks.
  • Candidates are expected to have relevant experience, although the specific number of years required is not mentioned.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, personal bonuses, a firm profit share bonus, and comprehensive benefits including 25 days of annual leave.
  • Additional perks include a Medicash health cash plan, options to buy or sell annual leave, and various schemes for transportation and health.

AJ Chambers are proud to be partnered with a leading national law firm as they look to expand their Real Estate team in Norwich by hiring a Legal Secretary. The firm are looking to hire into both their commercial and residential property teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Document creation including copytyping manuscript amendments to documents, 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 Solicitor when requested and service meetings including booking conference rooms and provision of refreshments for the Solicitor 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
  • Arranging meetings and maintaining manager/ fee earner’s diary, as required; and supporting fee earners with accounting and billing processes, as well as managing queries

What’s on offer?:

  • Competitive salary
  • Personal Bonus
  • Firm profit share Bonus
  • 25 days annual leave entitlement + bank holidays
  • Comprehensive private medical cover with optional cover for family
  • Medicash health cash plan - reclaim cash spent on routine treatment
  • Option to 'buy or sell’ annual leave days (up to 5 days per year)
  • One paid charity day per year
  • Career break policy
  • Interest-free season ticket loan
  • Perks at work discounts
  • Cycle to work scheme and Electric car schemes
  • Long service awards

For more information on this opportunity, please apply or reach out directly to Dexter Brunt at AJ Chambers.

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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.