Legal Secretary - Cheltenham, United Kingdom - GMP RECRUITMENT LIMITED

GMP RECRUITMENT LIMITED

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Cheltenham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

GMP Recruitment are proud to be partnered with a well-respected and highly successful law firm located in Cheltenham.

We are supporting their recruitment for a Legal Secretary to join their Town and Country Homes team on a full time, permanent basis.

Our client is a law firm that has built a reputation around providing outstanding legal advice and exceptional service to regional, national and international private clients.

As a Legal Secretary you will provide expert secretarial and administrative support to a small but busy team, working under a senior Partner of the firm and dealing with high net-worth clients and high-value properties, so it is vital you have exceptionalattention to detail and excellent client services skills.

Legal Secretary main duties:

Providing secretarial support to a busy team of partners, solicitors, and other fee earners dealing with high networth clients and highvalue properties.
File opening including client due diligence, file management, and closure.
Obtaining documents from Land Registry.
Ordering searches.
Dealing with disbursements and client account management.
Preparation of completion statements and invoices.
Completing Stamp Duty Land Tax returns and filing them with HMRC.
Dealing with clients on the telephone and in person where necessary.

Legal Secretary desired skills and experience:

At least 3 years of experience supporting property fee earners, ideally within residential conveyancing
Attention to detail.
Excellent written and verbal skills.
Familiar with case management systems.
Selfstarter and uses own initiative.
Understanding of the conveyancing process.
Ability to work under pressure.

This is a full time, permanent position, Monday - Friday, 09:00am - 17:30pm.

In return for all the above you will receive a salary of up to £27,000 which is demonstrable with experience, plus excellent fringe benefits.

GMP Recruitment are recruiting for this role on behalf of their client and are acting as an Employment Agency