Private Client Legal Secretary

An established law firm primarily based in the South East is looking to recruit an experienced Private Client legal secretary who also has experience of Personal Injury. This is to provide support in a wide range of secretarial duties partners and lawyers who cover Wills, Probate and Personal Injury. 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. It could also include preparing rooms for meetings and undertaking office management duties such as ordering stationery. This would suit candidates with recent previous legal secretarial experience particularly in Residential Conveyancing, as this will be dealing with high net-worth clients. You must have excellent IT skills in Word and Excel and possess a secretarial qualification. 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.

You will need to have completed your ILEX legal secretarial diploma in order to be considered for this role. This would be ideally suited to someone who is looking for more than just a secretarial role as this position will give you scope to get more involved.