Legal Secretary – Probate & Court of Protection

Are you an experienced Legal Secretary? looking for a new challenge? then please read on ……

Our client is an established and highly regarded Legal organisation, they have an exciting opportunity and are seeking to recruit a full time Legal Secretary support their Probate and Court of Protection team. (Our client may consider an applicant who wishes to work part time hours)
A team player, the successful candidate will be a strong typist (60wpm+), and possess good communication skills.

On a day to day basis, your duties will include:

• Accurately create and input documents from digital dictation onto the case management system
• Draft straightforward legal documents using the precedents provided, filing documents online where appropriate
• Open and create new files, as instructed by the Legal Advisor
• Assist the Legal Advisor with any aspect of file management
• Prepare files for archiving
• Attend to clients on the phone and in person, accurately recording any messages and passing on to the appropriate person without delay
• Schedule appointments, arrange meetings, and maintain up-to-date diaries using the appropriate diary function, if requested.

Their ideal candidate will have previous legal secretarial experience, be a confident MS office user and have strong organisational skills (minimum typing speed 60 wpm)

Whats on offer:
This is a great opportunity to join a professional organisation who take care of their employees. Benefits include a competitive salary, 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off, life cover, discounted gym membership and pension.
GBP22000-GBP24000