Legal Secretary

Job Title: Legal Secretary

Location: Northenden, Manchester

Salary: £16,000 to £18,000 – dependent on experience.

Hours: 37.5 hour week.  Typically 9am – 5.30pm with 1 hour lunch.

The company are looking to recruit a number of talented legal secretaries to join their expanding firm. The Legal secretary role will include audio typing, preparation of documents and correspondence, speaking to clients and third parties by telephone and diary management.

The ideal candidate for this legal secretarial position will have legal secretarial experience preferably in a personal injury or civil litigation environment. Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, and a strong command of English spelling, punctuation and grammar are both essential. An audio typing speed of 65+ wpm is a distinct advantage.

The company cover every area of personal injury including public liability, occupier’s liability, road traffic accidents, employer’s liability, industrial disease, serious injuries and clinical negligence matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• To prepare correspondence and documents for a busy Solicitors firm.  Usually within a defined work stream of RTA, Employers Liability, Public Liability or Clinical Negligence.
• To administer filing which will include daily filing and the opening, closing, storage and retrieval of client files in accordance with the detailed procedure contained in the Staff Handbook
• To prepare mail and enclosures for despatch if required.
• To arrange for all copying to be done, in person if the admin assistant is not available to undertake the task.
• To make appointments, arrange meetings and to liaise with fee earners, clients, counsel.
• To provide support to other secretaries and the administration team as required.
• To attend clients both in person and on the telephone and to provide such support in a professional and friendly manner in keeping with the firm’s standards for client care.
• To undertake any specific training when required to do so and overall to have a responsibility towards self-development.
• To ensure the confidentiality of all the firm’s and clients’ documentation and information.

The Candidate:

• The ideal candidate for this legal secretarial position will have legal secretarial experience preferably in a personal injury or civil litigation environment. Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, and a strong command of English spelling, punctuation and grammar are both essential. An audio typing speed of 65+ wpm is a distinct advantage.
• The company cover every area of personal injury including public liability, occupier’s liability, road traffic accidents, employer’s liability, industrial disease, serious injuries and clinical negligence matters.

Person Specification:

• Legal knowledge
• Computer literate.
• Excellent command of English spelling, punctuation and grammar (Grade C and above at GCSE)
• Excellent word processing and audio typing skills
• Excellent customer service skills, including professional and friendly telephone manner.

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Candidates with experience of;  Legal Secretary, Legal Client Secretary, Personal Injury, Legal, Secretary, Legal Handler, Personal Injury Legal Secretary, Fee Earner Support will also be considered for this position.