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Location: London
Job Type: Contract - 3 Months
Salary: £31k pro rata
Legal Secretary - Employment - Contract
SCOPE
Our Client is looking for a professional legal secretary to work within their Employment Team. The Employment team is made up of 5 fee earners and 2 secretaries, with this role looking after 2-3 fee earners.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Produce correspondence and documents via copy or audio typing using BigHand.
• Proof reading to ensure all documents produced are accurate and correctly presented.
• Manage and filter telephone calls from clients on behalf of the team, taking detailed messages and assisting where appropriate.
• Receive and transmit information via email, memos, and reports, electronically and manually.
• Data management - filing etc.
• Produce and supply billing guides from data retrieved from the Firm’s management system.
• Acting as the key contact point for fee-earners both internally and externally.
• Diary management for all fee earners.
• Drafting simple correspondence.
HOURS
Core hours 09:30 to 17:30 - Monday to Friday. Flexibility is a requirement.
Qualifications / Skills / Benefits
• Experience of working in an Employment department.
• Able to \\\\\\\"hit the ground running\\\\\\\"
• Minimum typing speed of 65 wpm with a very high level of accuracy
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word
• A familiarity with Dictation software
• Advanced knowledge working with Document Management Systems, Templates etc.
• Ability to produce accurate, correctly presented documents