Owen Reed is looking to recruit a motivated and resourceful Legal Secretary to join top law firm in Manchester.
Your Role
As a Legal Secretary your day to day remit includes:
- Document production support – creation and amendment of Word Docs/emails/letters/producing engrossments/arranging printing of large volume docs.
- Admin support - setting up meetings/dealing with office admin/expenses/filing (physical and digital where necessary); scanning etc
- Client support - liaison with clients/team, sending information to clients when required, manging reports for clients, dealing with simple billing queries, etc. There is opportunity to work on client reporting as well.
- Financial Admin support - Billing/WIP and other such financial management
- Project support - arranging larger projects/deeds management/large scale copying and production of spreadsheets/arranging /accessing/setting up datarooms
Your Skills and Experience
- Previous Legal Secretary experienced
- Extensive experience in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel are required.
- Experience in case management systems
- Exceptional prioritising/organisational skills.
- Strong ability to self-manage a large workload in a busy team.
- Confident in delegation of work when necessary.
- Preferable experience from within a city/large law firm,
Your Team
We are one of the UK's largest real estate groups, with a team of over 180, advising on thousands of transactions across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each year. Clients instruct us for this experience, our depth of expertise and sector know-how. Many of our real estate partners are independently recognised as leading individuals in the field by the legal industry's annual directory rankings. Clients including many in-house lawyers trust us with both 'high profile' and business as usual work.
