Family Legal Secretary

A well-established law firm in the South East is looking to recruit an experienced Family legal secretary. The prime role of the legal secretary is to provide direct support to the Head of the department and their team. They deal with Family and Child care law. They specialise in:

• Proceedings relating to children
• Social Services cases
• Adoption and guardianship
• Child protection
• Advocacy of family court trails

Duties:
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 some relevant 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.