Legal Secretary

Legal Secretary - Family Law

Location: Maidstone

Hours: Full time, hybrid option available

Salary: £23,000 - £28,000 per annum DOE

ACS staffing solutions has teamed up with a well-established legal firm in the Maidstone area to support them with the recruitment of a legal secretary within family law. Experience in family law isn't necessarily needed; if you have a strong legal secretary background, retraining is an option.

The Role

The Family team deals with mid to high level family law matters, complex financial cases, pre and post nuptial agreements, domestic violence issues, and children matters. The team additionally assists with RSPCA matters. As a Legal Secretary, you will undertake a variety of important tasks including, but not limited to:

1. Building relationships with clients and other solicitors/barristers' clerks in writing and over the phone.
2. Diary management for allocated legal advisors.
3. Arranging meetings/appointments - including booking meeting rooms and preparing documents ahead of the meeting.
4. Using the team's precedents, copy typing or audio/digital dictation.
5. Ensuring electronic files are kept up-to-date.
6. Opening and closing/archiving files.
7. Attending team and training meetings as required.

The client's team currently consists of 3 other support staff and 9 legal advisors, including Partners, Associates, Solicitors, Legal Executives, and Paralegals. You will be expected to work in a team alongside fellow support staff, as well as independently assisting with a range of interesting work.

About You!

The role would suit an experienced legal secretary with experience in the family legal environment. Strong legal secretaries from other areas of law will also be considered! You will have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with a professional telephone manner and be able to demonstrate high attention to detail.

You will need to be comfortable working with various IT systems; however, training will be provided. You should have strong numeracy skills with an ability to understand financial ledgers. This is a busy, high-performing team that works to short notice deadlines, therefore you must be adept at managing various tasks at once while also being able to prioritise and use your initiative when required. Due to the nature of the work the team is involved in, you will need to understand and demonstrate discretion and confidentiality in your work. While you will have allocated fee earners, our secretaries work closely as a team, and therefore you must be comfortable communicating and working with others to manage workloads.