Employment Legal Secretary - Reading, United Kingdom - boyes turner

boyes turner
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Reading, United Kingdom

1 week ago

Tom O´Connor

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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 in our Employment department, as well as delivering an excellent service to both internal and external stakeholders.


Responsibilitieswhat will you do?
As
an Employment Legal Secretary you will be responsible for:

  • 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.

Essential skills and experiencewhat are we looking for?

  • 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 and experience

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

Benefitswhat do you get?

Contractual Benefits:


  • 25 days annual leave,
  • Pension scheme with a 4% employer contribution
  • Life Assurance 5 x final salary

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
  • Shopping discounts and Medicash

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent


Schedule:

  • Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Reading: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location:
Hybrid remote in Reading


Reference ID:
Employment Legal Secretary
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