Legal Secretary

I am supporting a well established Bristol Law firm, who has a new opportunity for a Secretary to join the planning & infrastructure team to support lawyers and help serve the needs of our clients. The firm provides planning advice to clients from the education, charity and public sectors as well as helping landowners and developers. Our planning work may be stand-alone or working closely with our construction, commercial property and property litigation teams.

In this role you'll be invaluable by taking ownership of the legal administration tasks to allow our lawyers to focus on business generation. You'll deliver a full range of secretarial and admin support such as maintaining Lexcel compliant files, assist with the drafting of client correspondence and reports as well as become familiar with the firm's compliance procedures for letters of engagement, file opening, money laundering, archiving, billing and client accounts. You'll get involved with ad-hoc project work when required and have the opportunity to brush up on those all-important client facing skills as you play a key part in gathering relevant information from clients to assist the lawyers with their enquiries.

Required skills

The ability to:

develop strong relationships within the team

communicate concisely both verbally and in writing with internal and external clients

type quickly and accurately

plan, and organise and prioritise own workload and assist fee earners with urgent and nonurgent tasks both in the office and remotely

to learn and use our/clients' software & IT applications - e.g. excel, client portals, calendar/document management systems

demonstrate flexibility and commitment, assisting other teams as and when necessary

write with excellent spelling, grammar and punctuation

take initiative to find information using resources available and ask for help when necessary

learn new things quickly and assist with a wide and varying range of tasks

be able to take feedback and learn from experience

This company offers excellent benefits, training and career progression, please apply today.