Legal Secretary - Edinburgh, United Kingdom - CMS UK

CMS UK

Verified Company

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you looking for a new opportunity within a law firm that is significantly growing in size and global reach?

About CMS
CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with the clients we support,our people and the communities we work in.

We take a bold, dynamic and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence.

We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of delivering legal services.

Our bold approach to a changing future ensures that we nurture our employees and recruit top talent. We don't justwant to face the future we want to shape it.

About the Role

We are looking for a Legal Secretary to join our Employment team in Edinburgh to provide a high-quality and efficient secretarial service to Partners, fee-earners and trainee solicitors.

Reporting directly to the Secretarial Services Manager, your focus willbe on efficiently managing your own workload and being proactive with the ability to work on your own initiative.

Tasks include, but are not limited to:

Amending and formatting agreements/documents as required
Organising meetings and travel arrangements
Copytyping and digital dictation as required
Assisting with Billing/Finance tasks
Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
Handling client enquiries as and when required
Processing expenses on Chrome River in a timely manner
Liaison with Business Development, Marketing, Events and Finance Teams with a view to supporting them on specific teambased tasks

About You You will need to be adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach, demonstrating high levels of client care, organisational and time management skills.

Ideally, you will have gained experience within another law firm demonstrating a proactive and enthusiastic approach with high levels of IT literacy, superb attention to detail and the ability to learn new systems quickly.

Equal Opportunities
At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do.

We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximisetheir potential and thrive.

For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.

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