Legal Secretary/Team Assistant

Ideal Personnel & Recruitment Solutions Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Job description

Our client has a vacancy for a Legal Secretary/Team Assistant to join their Residential Conveyancing team. The ideal candidate will have previous experience of residential property work along with legal secretarial experience. You will need to be well-organised and reliable with good audio/copy typing skills.

At times you may be asked to take work from another fee earner or department to help with any staff shortages, holidays, sickness etc - therefore a degree of flexibility is necessary with this position.

Main duties

To provide secretarial support to fee earner including:

• Typing all correspondence to include forms, documents and firm precedents.
• Filing
• Making appointments
• Payments in and out of cheques
• Dealing with client enquiries
• Dealing with email and any other correspondence.
• Dealing with incoming and outgoing post.
• To cover switchboard when needed.

Skills required

• Good communication skills
• Good organisation and administration skills
• Ability to prioritise
• Able to work well within a team environment.

Due to the large number of responses we receive, it is not always possible to respond to every application straight away. Should your skills and experience be a match for this role, or any other vacancy we may have, we will normally contact you within 72 hours of receiving your application. If you wish to apply for further roles, please do so.