Private Client/Employment Legal Secretary

An established law firm primarily based in the South East is looking to recruit an experienced Private Client legal secretary to assist a Fee Earner as well as Legal Assistant work for a Partner and Head of Employment. This is to provide support in a wide range of secretarial duties to partners and Fee Earners who cover Wills, Probate, Employment and Civil matters. 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 administrative tasks
• Preparing rooms for meetings and undertaking office management duties such as ordering stationery
• Legal Assistant work for the Partner in Employment to include file opening
• Secretarial work for Private Client Solicitor
• Areas covered in Private client – Probate and Estate Administration, Inheritance Tax Planning, Wills, Powers of attorney and managing clients’ affairs
  
  This would suit candidates with recent previous legal secretarial experience in Private Client:
  
  

• You must have excellent IT skills in Word & Excel
• Possess a secretarial qualification
• 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 opportunity. 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 really involved.