Legal Secretary
Hybrid working, great benefits.
Commercial Litigation.
Legal Secretary role for a leading, international, city of London law firm located close to Liverpool Street station. This innovative firm provide the balance of a fast-paced and challenging environment, alongside a rewarding and positive experience for secretaries/Pas.
Legal Secretary will support direct line management, resource management and fee earners within Commercial Litigation.
As a Legal Secretary it is essential that you build effective relationships, have gravitas to manage senior management and stakeholders, alongside possessing a process driven mindset. Must have strong commercial and financial acumen.
One the UK’s leading, international law firms.
Some of the Legal Secretarial duties are:
- Manage fee earner/PA allocations and the even distribution of workloads within PA teams
- Maintain and manage team rotas and overtime
- Manage regular group meetings, producing agendas and minutes
- Initiate new starter processes, complete documentation and circulate
- Integrate new joiners by arranging introduction to relevant persons
- Provide and/or arrange all on-boarding and induction training, ensuring the firm’s policies and procedures are followed
- Acting as the point of contact for Business Service teams
- Co-ordinating the assignment of mentors, buddies, PA/fee earner allocation
- Manage and monitor practice groups’ holiday, sickness and other absences, ensuring appropriate
You, as a Legal Secretary would have:
- Strong communication skills
- Able to identify potential issues with an innovative approach to problem solving
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
- Proven persuasion, influencing and negotiation skills, including conflict management
- Commercial and financial acumen
- Highly motivated and equipped with the ability to motivate and inspire team members
- Capable of working autonomously and within a team environment
- Advanced knowledge of all legal software systems and Microsoft Office