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Conveyancing Legal Secretary

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Posted 11 hours ago, valid for a month
Location

Wolverhampton, Staffordshire WV6 7NR

Salary

£24,000 - £28,800 per annum

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Contract type

Full Time

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  • A leading firm in Wolverhampton is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to join their Conveyancing team.
  • The role involves providing high-level support to partners and fee earners, managing diaries, and organizing travel arrangements.
  • Candidates should possess extensive experience as a Legal Secretary and have strong IT skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office and Elite billing.
  • The firm offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
  • Applicants should have a minimum of several years of relevant experience in a similar role.

Legal Secretary - ConveyancingWolverhampton A fantastic, leading firm in Wolverhampton, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their already impressive Conveyancing team.

Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Secretary will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Secretaries, Fee Earners and Partners to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Secretarial Duties in Wolverhampton.Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Secretary in Conveyancing:

  • Provide high level support to partners and fee earners working closely with the partner and their team in the Conveyancing Department
  • Extensive diary management and organising complex travel arrangements for a lot of overseas travel for partners
  • Assisting partners with the daily secretarial duties such as managing bundles
  • Plays an active role in knowledge sharing to ensure growth and development
  • Assists the partner in providing them with effective and high quality secretarial support
  • Undertakes all aspects of the role using the most appropriate tools and resources for the task to meet deadlines
  • Demonstrates flexibility and proactively contribute to the team's success by actively seeking to improve working processes
  • Ensures all work is undertaken in the correct priority order
  • Ad Hoc secretarial / admin duties

Skills Required:

  • Extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary
  • Have a strong working knowledge of iManage and Bighand or similar tools
  • IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Lync - Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams
  • Detailed and strong working knowledge of and high level of proficiency in Elite billing
  • Exemplary document management and filing
  • Excellent telephone manner
  • Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
  • Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
  • Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members

The firm are offering 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, and a range of competitive benefits. If you are an experienced Legal Secretary, based in or near Wolverhampton, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to

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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.