Legal Secretary - London, United Kingdom - Hobbs Legal Recruitment

Hobbs Legal Recruitment
Hobbs Legal Recruitment
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London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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An excellent opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join a respected dispute resolution team in London to work alongside a Senior Partner.


The team in question cover a full range of disputes work including commercial disputes, real estate property disputes, intellectual property disputes, insurance disputes, fraud and employment litigation.


Role:
This role is full time, Monday - Friday 9am-5pm and office based.


Salary:
£37,000 - £40,000


Duties:


  • Building and maintaining effective relationships with both internal and external clients and their teams and developing knowledge of their business
  • Developing and maintaining core sector understanding to support delivery of optimum client service.
  • Liaising regularly to identify work commitments and prioritising your workload accordingly.
  • Proactively identify areas of responsibility and tasks you can take ownership of
  • Diary management including arranging meetings and appointments, both internally and externally, ensuring the diary is up to date and holds all the necessary information in relation to the appointment including taking responsibility for booking travel, meeting rooms and arranging for necessary equipment and refreshments.
  • Proactive advance monitoring reminding them of diary commitments and taking responsibility for the provision of all supporting paperwork and necessary information for each meeting.
  • Make travel and accommodation arrangements, keeping advising of any changes in scheduling and ensuring they have an accurate and up to date itinerary and all the relevant travel details are in the diary.
  • Taking ownership of answering telephone calls when they are unavailable, taking accurate messages and passing them on promptly, trying to assist and answer any nonlegal queries if possible and ensuring the caller receives a satisfactory response.
  • Preparing presentation slides and materials for internal/external meetings and events
  • Drafting short letters, memos or notes

Person:


  • Litigation experience is required.
  • You will have over 3 years' experience as Legal PA and/or Legal Secretary.
  • Excellent organisational skills.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Pay:
£37,000.00-£40,000.00 per year


Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Experience:

Legal Secretary: 3 years (preferred)

  • Litigation: 3 years (preferred)

Work Location:
In person
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