Law firm in Pretoria East is looking for a Legal Secretary to join their Banking Law Department.
Requirements:
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in this field
- Fully bilingual
- Matric
List of duties:
- Receiving instructions, acknowledging receipt of the instruction, perusing the documents received, requesting outstanding documents from client. Conducting CIPC and various Deeds office searches.
- Ensuring that you have all the required documents to proceed with each step of the legal process.
- Drafting letters, Section 129 notices, Letter of demands, Section 345 notices, Section 69 notices.
- Drafting Combined Summons, Particulars of Claim and Notice of Opposition to Mediation/Application for a Case Number.
- Drafting Default Judgement Application, Compliance Statement, Date Application, Notice of Set Down.
- Drafting Writ of Execution against movables/banks/specific bank account.
- Drafting Subpoenas against banks.
- Drafting Declaration.
- Drafting POA’s, Settlement Agreements, Acknowledgement of Debt.
- Drafting Sale in Execution documents, notices, conditions and arranging publications in the local Newspaper and Government Gazette.
- Drafting instruction letters to sheriff/correspondent attorneys/tracer/courier for services to be rendered.
- Attending to any and all queries raised by the client/debtor/sheriff/counsel/correspondent attorneys/tracers/courier/any third parties.
- Reporting to client via email or ocs system on progress of each individual file.
- Final enrolment of matters in court for hearing, ensuring that all correct documents are uploaded to Court Online and CaseLines for the matter to proceed. Briefing counsel for attendance of the hearing.
- Briefing counsel for any other applications that need to be prepared.
- Liaising between client and debtor for payment arrangements/settlements.
- Liaising with sheriff/counsel/correspondent attorneys/tracers/courier for outstanding/amendments of returns, trace reports and update reports.
- Generating monthly reports and MI reports to client and submitting the various reports to client.
- Generating invoices for fees and disbursements, ensuring the information of the invoice is correct and corresponds with the invoices generated. Adding the invoices for fees and disbursements to 4 different spreadsheets. Submitting invoices with a bulk invoice to client for payment.
- Receiving statements from sheriff/correspondent attorneys/tracers/counsel and attending to posting and payment thereof. Counsel is done by finance and some sheriff’s.
- Receiving bulk invoicing paid from client and attending to update various spreadsheets, ensuring that the invoices for disbursements paid by client are paid or attending to payment if not paid yet.
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