Employment Legal Secretary - Reading, United Kingdom - Boyes Turner

Boyes Turner

Verified Company

Reading, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role Description:

We have a great opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join our fast paced but friendly Employment team based in Reading.

You will be responsible for providing full support to our Fee Earners as well as delivering an excellent service to both internal and external stakeholders.

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Experience/ Attributes required:
Essential Skills

1 + years' experience working in an administrative role.
Work effectively in a team and on your own.
Possess outstanding interpersonal and communication (verbal & written) skills.
Exceptional prioritising/organisational skills
Good attention to detail and the ability to use your initiative.
Strong ability to selfmanage a large workload in a busy team.
Extensive experience in Outlook, Microsoft Word, Power Point & Excel
Experience with dealing with financial and client account queries.

Desirable Skills

Employment experience not essential but would be advantageous.
Previous Legal Secretary or Legal PA experience
Ideally experience in case management systems
Excellent knowledge of Elite accounts package

Work type:

Producing accurate documentation, reports and correspondence following standard office practices and precedents
Supporting the team by carrying out all secretarial tasks and help, when necessary, with all administrative tasks
Managing diaries of fee earners as required and coordinating meeting logistics.
Inserting and amending key court dates
Proof reading and formatting presentations
Producing billing guides and timecards
Sending invoices and liaising with clients in regards to queries
Producing spreadsheets as required to accompany invoices; time modify; monitor disbursements and arrange for payment to third party suppliers as necessary; monitor debtors list & NWH billing.

Benefits:

Contractual Benefits

25 days annual leave,
Pension scheme with a 4% employer contribution
Life Assurance 5 x final salary
Shopping discounts and Medicash
Discretionary bonus scheme

Non Contractual Benefits

Travel season ticket loan scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Weekly wellbeing hour
Birthday off
1 x 8 hour charity day
Bring your dog to work

Team structure:

3 x Partners
1 x Director
3 x Senior Associates
1 x Head of Immigration
2 x Solicitors
1 x Paralegal
1 x Legal Executive
1 x Trainee Solicitor
4 x Secretaries

Other information:

Boyes Turner's Employment team is ranked in Tier 1 by Legal 500. Its partners are recognized as experts in their field.

The Group is innovative and seeking to find ways of developing its offering and services to clients harnessing all modern technologies.

We offer excellent working conditions and a modern, forward thinking, friendly team.
We have been voted as the leading UK regional law firm to work for in the South East by the Best Company Survey published by the Sunday Times in 2006 and best law firm to work for in the South East for three years in a row.