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Legal Secretary

JLD Recruitment Ltd
Posted 19 days ago, valid for 7 days
Location

Southend-On-Sea, Essex SS30JF

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client is looking for an experienced legal secretary to support a qualified solicitor in a full-time office-based role.
  • Candidates should have relevant experience dealing with estate, succession, and tax planning, as well as trust management and probate work.
  • The position involves managing diaries, handling client calls, and ensuring efficient communication with the solicitor.
  • The ideal candidate should possess excellent typing skills and superb organizational abilities, with a focus on high-net-worth private individuals.
  • The salary for this position is competitive, and candidates should have at least 3 years of relevant experience.

Our client is seeking an experienced legal secretary to work closely with a qualified solicitor.

This is a full time office based position.

Dealing with estate, succession and tax planning; structuring wealth to pass down the generations. Elements of trust management (advising trustees on the administration of trusts); and aspects of probate and charity work - often for high-net-worth private individuals. Private client solicitors travel fairly regularly to see clients, who include entrepreneurs, trustees, private banks, charities, individuals and family offices (an organisation that assumes the day-to-day management and administration of a family’s financial and tax affairs). Therefore, the successful candidate will be involved in diary management Travel, either via car or public transport Taking calls from clients. Assisting where possible, but making sure that information is passed to the solicitor to deal with. Knowledge of the documentation relating to this area of legal practice.

You must have an accurate and fast typing ability with superb organisational skills.

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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.