Legal Secretary
Huddersfield
£24,000 - £28,000
My client an award winning Law Firm are looking to recruit a Legal Secretary to join their Private Client team, based in Huddersfield.
Main Duties:
The main purpose of this role is to support fee earners within the team and work of the department. Providing high standards of client care at all times in a professional and pleasant manner.
Main Duties
* Typing documents, emails and file notes, etc for the fee earner's
* Setting up new appointments, answering telephone, speaking to clients and solicitors
* Good organisational skills
* Joining team meetings and making suggestions for more efficient admin
* Assisting with new precedents
* Liaising with other members of the admin team
* Digital dictation (BigHand)
* High degree of autonomy and self-organisation
* Ensuring files are fully time recorded for billing
* Assisting other fee earners within the team
* Providing cover for other secretaries in their absence
* Initial point of contact, take new enquiry calls, book appointments, diary management
* Open and close files
* Scan in daily post and general filing
* Deal with Will and document requests
* Drafting generic letters (Client Care Letters, initial letters to banks etc advising of deaths)
* Draft SEV forms and notices of renunciation
Skills Required:
* Previous experience of working within the legal sector
* Experience in drafting basic Lasting Power of Attorneys (LPAs) and Wills
* Excellent telephone manner, typing skills and use of digital dictation
* Good typing skills and use of digital dictation
* Highly motivated & organised
* Willingness to take on new tasks
* Proactive and using initiative
* Efficient
* Able to prioritise workloads of different fee earners.
Benefits
Competitive salary
Work life balance
Hybrid working available.
25 days holiday plus statutory, plus extra days for long service.
An extra day's holiday for your birthday
2 x days off for Life Admin Days
Health Scheme
2 x Non -Contractual Bonuses per year
Pension
Christmas party get togethers.
If you are an experienced Legal Secretary interested in this role, please apply asap!
CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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