Legal Secretary - Family Law

A leading regional law firm in the South East is looking to recruit an experienced legal secretary to work in the Family department. The firm provides proactive, responsive and quality legal services across a range of sectors. This is to work for a legal executive on a one to one basis. Your key responsibilities will be:

• To ensure documents and correspondence are processed quickly and accurately, including the appropriate use of the firms case management system
• Attend to clients both on the phone and in person
• Ensure that the firms file management procedures are accurately adhered to
• To set up new files and instructions from fee earners promptly and accurately
• Make travel arrangements as and when required
• Make appointments, arrange meetings and maintain an up to date diary
• Maintain time records of telephone calls, letters and attendances on clients
• To undertake any other duties which from time to time may be allocated

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Ability to take responsibility to deliver quality service to clients
• Excellent telephone manner
• Good time management and organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal/communication skills (both written and oral)
• Excellent team player and willingness to provide support to other secretaries
• Flexible work attitude, prioritising workload
• Confident and professional
• Good knowledge of IT skills to include Word, Excel, Outlook, Case management system and previous digital dictation systems
• Fast and accurate typing speeds of 70wpm

For this position you will require recent previous Family legal secretarial experience. This would suit an individual who possesses an ILEX legal secretarial diploma or other legal secretarial diploma.