Family Legal Secretary

Family Legal Secretary Job Description Template

Our company is looking for a Family Legal Secretary to join our team.

Responsibilities:

  • Processing expenses;
  • Managing Board/Resolution commitments, meetings, away days etc;
  • Inbox management;
  • Supporting bundling – indices, front sheets etc;
  • Liaising with Journalists, taking details messages including deadlines;
  • Assisting with billing and producing bill letters;
  • Filing and archiving;
  • Extensive diary management, booking internal and external meetings, watching out for any clashes;
  • Liaising with the Post Room and Reprographics department;
  • Typing;
  • Providing full administrative and secretarial support and assistance;
  • Word processing including preparing correspondence via email and letter and court documents;
  • Using MS Office suite (Word, Excel and Outlook) and case management system;
  • To prepare the Conference Room for meetings as necessary and for the tidying and clearance of the room at the end of the meeting;
  • To prepare mail and enclosures.

Requirements:

  • Experience of providing a polished secretarial service and administrative support to an extremely busy team of allocated fee earners;
  • Provide assistance to partners and fee earners during the absence of other secretaries in the team, as and when required;
  • Confident at building excellent external and internal relationships, including with clients, business contacts and the wider partnership;
  • A sense of pride in the role of being a personal assistant and a desire to add value;
  • Excellent and pleasant communication skills together with emotional intelligence.