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Legal Secretary - 2 roles

Job Posted: 20 days ago

Salary: £ 28,000 - 34,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh

Expire in: 8 days

Job Description

Legal Secretary (2 roles)
Edinburgh City Centre based | fully office-based roles
Permanent | Full time hours | Monday to Friday
Salary up to £34,000 per annum + benefits (depending on relevant Legal experience)

Search Consultancy are delighted to be working exclusively with a leading Law firm based in Edinburgh City Centre to recruit two new Legal Secretarial roles for their business.

The successful candidates will be responsible for providing comprehensive secretarial support to fee earners within two of their teams within the office - Private Client and Residential Conveyancing.

These roles would ideally suit experienced Legal Secretaries who are looking to make their next move within the Legal sector. Candidate with experience in either Private Client or Conveyancing would be in the best position to secure the top of the salary bracket on offer.

Duties involved in this role will include:
* Setting up new clients on the firm's system, opening of new matters and assisting fee-earners with client on-boarding documentation
* Timely and accurate completion of varied documentation and correspondence as required in line with firm & department templates
* Undertaking digital dictation and typing for the fee earners on a daily basis
* Dealing with incoming calls, emails & correspondence coming into the department, taking call notes, flagging & escalating as appropriate
* Taking & passing on messages to the appropriate person within the department
* Full diary management for partners including appointment scheduling, meeting management and room/venue bookings 
* Handling & filing of sensitive legal documentation 
* Liaising with the Secretarial Support Manager to help plan allocation of work across the teams & staff
* Various other Secretarial & Admin duties as directed

In order to be considered for this role your skills and experience should include:
* Previous experience as a Legal Secretary or Legal Administrator carrying out Secretarial duties in line with the above - this experience is ESSENTIAL
* Candidates with specific Private Client, Conveyancing, Rural or Commercial Real Estate Secretarial experience would be preferred for these roles, but this is not essential and candidates with secretarial experience in other areas will be considered
* Excellent organisation skills & excellent attention to detail - with the ability to prioritise a very busy workload & pivot your focus when needed
* First class IT and typing skills including a good level of competence with the MS Office suite and preferably experience of using digital dictation software
* First class communication skills - both written & verbal

If this is the role for you, apply now!

Please note that only applicants who have the required skills and experience detailed above will be considered for this role.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age

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