Senior Legal Administrator

Senior Legal Administrator
Worcester - Hybrid
£25,000 - £30,000

A fantastic, leading established Worcester firm, known to us as a client for many years, is keen to add an experienced Senior Legal Administrator to their already impressive team on a full-time basis. Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Senior Legal Administrator will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Secretaries, fee earners, and partners in the Commercial department to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Secretarial Duties in Worcester.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Senior Legal Administrator:

1. Provide high level one-to-one support to a partner in the Commercial department.
2. Extensive diary management and organising complex travel arrangements.
3. Assisting partners with the daily secretarial duties such as audio typing.
4. Assists the partner in providing them with effective and high-quality secretarial support.
5. Undertakes all aspects of the role using the most appropriate tools and resources for the task to meet deadlines.
6. Demonstrates flexibility and proactively contributes to the team's success by actively seeking to improve working processes.
7. Ensures all work is undertaken in the correct priority order.
8. Follows team processes and procedures when undertaking tasks.
9. Any ad-hoc secretarial duties.

Skills Required:

1. Extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary or a Legal Administrator.
2. Have a strong working knowledge of iManage and Bighand or similar tools.
3. IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Lync - Skype for Business, and Microsoft Teams.
4. Detailed and strong working knowledge of and high level of proficiency in Elite billing.
5. Exemplary document management and filing.
6. Excellent telephone manner.
7. Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
8. Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions.
9. Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members.

The firm is offering 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and a range of competitive benefits including a bonus scheme. If you are an experienced Senior Legal Administrator, based in or near Worcester, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to rio@douglas-scott.co.uk.