Family Legal Secretary

A well-established law firm in the South East is looking to recruit a Family legal secretary. The prime role of the legal secretary is to provide direct support to a fee earner and their team who deal with divorce, children and will be based in the care division. This will include, but will not be limited to providing a wide range of secretarial duties. As a legal secretary you will be expected to use a high degree of self-management and initiative.

Your duties will include:
• Diary management
• Digital dictation and day to day administration tasks
• Preparing rooms for meetings and undertaking office management duties such as ordering stationery.

This would suit candidates with recent previous Family legal secretarial experience. Candidates will also be considered if they have completed their ILEX and have some legal experience. You must have excellent IT skills in Word and Excel. You will need to be able to demonstrate initiative, have the ability to work in a small team and pay strong attention to detail.

A well organised secretary who is able to work under pressure and able to work to deadlines, with concise writing skills, spelling, punctuation and proof reading skills would suit this role. IT is essential that you must possess an ILEX legal secretarial diploma.