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Legal Secretary
Red Recruitment
Bristol
Hybrid
GBP 26,000 - 28,000
Full time
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Job summary
An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Legal Secretary to join a dynamic team in Bristol. This role offers an exciting opportunity to provide comprehensive support to fee earners, ensuring smooth operations through effective diary management, travel arrangements, and document preparation. You'll be at the heart of a busy legal environment, where your contributions will directly impact client satisfaction and team efficiency. If you're a proactive individual with a passion for the legal field and possess the necessary skills, this could be the perfect role for you. Join a forward-thinking firm that values your input and offers a hybrid working model for a balanced work-life experience.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a legal secretary with strong typing skills.
- Proficiency in MS Office and familiarity with case management systems.
Responsibilities
- Manage diaries, arrange meetings, and handle travel for fee earners.
- Assist with billing, prepare court documents, and manage client relationships.
Skills
Job description
Red Recruitment is recruiting a Legal Secretary in Bristol to join our client; they welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates, and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role with this client, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.
The successful Legal Secretary will provide an efficient, proactive, and comprehensive secretarial service to a busy team of fee earners.
- Salary: £26,000 - £28,000
- Hours: Hybrid Role, Monday - Friday 9.30 - 5.30pm
- Contract Type: Permanent
- Location: Bristol City Centre
- Start date: ASAP
- Thorough diary management to arrange meetings and manage changes as and when they arise
- Arrange travel for fee earners and partners both nationally and internationally and process all related expenses
- Report, and assist in resolving, any IT issues for self, fee earners, and partners
- Build relationships with clients, including responding to clients' specific requests for information and going the extra mile to assist them
- Assist proactively with billing and credit control queries
- Creating electronic court bundles including preparing the index
- Gathering/sorting documents for bundles
- Paginating and hyper-linking court bundles
- Submitting court documents via the e-file portal
- Preparing exhibits to witness statements
- Cross-referencing witness statements
- Preparation of standard correspondence
- Drafting court forms
- Responding to insolvency practitioners with financial information to assist with the preparation of annual reports (the financial information is extracted from elite)
- Previous legal secretarial experience
- Fast and accurate touch typing skills
- Proficient in MS Office packages
- Knowledge of case management systems
If you are interested in this position and have the relevant skills and experience required, please apply now!
Red Recruitment (Agency)
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