Legal Secretary - Commercial Property

Ideal Personnel and Recruitment Solutions ,
Crawley, West Sussex
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £25,000 per annum

Overview

Our client has a position for a Legal Secretary (Full-time) 9.00 - 5.30, ideally with experience in a Law Firm, Commercial Property. The role incudes support duties to ensure the smooth running of the office. The role: Making document amendments and document imaging/scanning. Document collation, version control and document review. Creating and populating tables, schedules and agendas. Management of team diaries and contact lists. Answering calls and client liaison. Liaising with clients, including managing our client on-boarding process (which includes preparing engagement documents, file opening, assisting fee earners with the AML process and preparing and sending out invoices). Liaising with our central accounts and facilities teams to arrange the posting of expense claims, WIP reports, file closures, cheques, printing and distributing them, and dealing with petty cash and file archiving. Also being responsible for securely storing important documents and deeds. Key Requirements Audio and copy typing experience. Attention to detail. The ability to multi task and work to deadlines when required. The ability to work with large amounts of information. You’ll also need to be a self starter who is organised, efficient and able to multi-task. Ideally we’d like you to have experience of using a legal document management and document review systems; although this isn’t essential and full training will be provided. Due to the large number of responses we receive it is not always possible to respond to every application. We will only contact those candidates short-listed for this role. If you have not heard from us within 7 days please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. If you wish to apply for further roles please do so. We will retain your details on file and contact you should a suitable vacancy become available.