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Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary

Ashville Knight
Posted 11 days ago, valid for 14 days
Location

Tonbridge, Kent TN12 6BE, England

Salary

£22,000 - £26,400 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • A well-established law firm in Kent is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary for their Residential Conveyancing Department.
  • The role involves providing secretarial and administrative support to Fee Earners, including managing diaries and maintaining client files.
  • Candidates must have at least one year of legal secretary experience, particularly in property transactions, along with strong typing and IT skills.
  • The salary for this position ranges from £23,000 to £27,000, depending on experience, and it is an office-based role with standard hours from Monday to Friday.
  • The firm offers ongoing professional development, training opportunities, and a standard holiday and pension scheme.

Well established law firm with offices across Kent are seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to work within their busy Residential Conveyancing Department.

This role will be to assist Fee Earners in their day to day work by providing support and an efficient secretarial and administrative service.

Duties include:

  • Providing full secretarial support including using a digital dictation system to produce correspondence and other documentation related to property transactions with PA duties including diary management
  • Maintenance of comprehensive and accurate client admin files.
  • Undertaking online Land Registry searches and responding to enquiries on behalf of lawyers.
  • Assistance in general team administration including meeting and greeting clients, taking calls and directing accordingly and arranging meeting room bookings.
  • Managing post completions procedures including SDLT returns and title registrations.

Desired skills and experience:

  • Legal Secretary/Assistant experience with at least a year of solid property expertise is essential.
  • Strong and efficient secretarial and admin skills.
  • Fast, accurate typing ability, ideally using digital audio systems – touch typing is highly desirable.
  • Experience of using case management systems.
  • IT literate – Microsoft Word / Excel / Outlook / Digital Audio software / Case Management.

What they offer:

  • Salary depending on experience £23,000 - £27,000.
  • Monday – Friday 9am – 5:30pm23000.00. This is office based.
  • Ongoing professional development and training opportunities.
  • Standard holiday and pension scheme.

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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.