Legal Secretary/pa - Manchester, United Kingdom - gunnercooke

gunnercooke

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Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Firm Profile
Gunnercooke LLP is a Top 80 law firm with recognition across 28 disciplines and over 50 individually ranked lawyers. Having launched in 2010, the firm has grown to over 450 solicitors, including 360+ Partners.

With a national and international presence, the firm has offices throughout the UK, Scotland, Germany, and the US.

Our purpose is simple; to deliver a positive impact for our clients, provide a better life for our people and to leave a better world than we found.

The firm's innovative 'revenue share' model has helped to reshape the way that the law is practiced in the UK.

Each Partner runs his or her own practice within the firm.

This quasi-autonomous structure provides Partners with the freedom to work only with the clients they truly want to work with, charging fees that are commercially viable for both the Partner and the client.

Due to continued success, Our Corporate & Real Estate Partner is seeking the addition of Legal Secretary / PA to join them in Manchester.

The Role

We are looking for a Legal Secretary / Personal Assistant to join our Corporate & Real Estate Partner in Manchester.
The day-to-day duties include but are not limited to:

Diary Management (inputting deadlines and remainders)
Manage external networking events.
Client communications, greeting client, opening files.
Greet clients and open files with client care letters and checking IDs.
Be responsible for bills, invoices and expenses.
Audio typing documents and correspondence
Recording all client and matter details on the case management system,
Setting up new files
Ensuring details are kept up to date.
Making appointments and maintaining the diary
To attend clients both in person and on the telephone in a professional and friendly manner.
Office duties including filing, scanning, photocopying etc.

This role is suitable for individuals with previous secretarial experience who wish to step into the legal field.

The position is to be based in our central Manchester officer, on a hybrid working model offering 2/3 days from home per week.

Personal Specification
To be successful in the role, you will be based in Manchester, have prior PA or secretarial experience. You will have strong experience using Microsoft office, Adobe, DocuSign and more. You will be pro-active, efficient, organised, keen to take the initiative and to drive transactions forward.

Excellent communicator, both written and oral.
Commercial awareness.
Accuracy and strong attention to detail.
Ability to build strong rapport and to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients and colleagues at all levels.
Strong IT skills (specifically Outlook, Microsoft Excel/Word and Data Rooms).
Ability to plan work and prioritise tasks.
Ability to take initiate with tasks.

Job Types:
Full-time, Part-time, Permanent, Graduate

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