Legal Secretary
RPC
Legal Secretary
Salary Not Specified
RPC, Bristol
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 3 weeks ago, 23 May | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 360356a4e6df4b9983957c0bcd322a60
Full Job Description
We are now recruiting a Junior Legal Secretary for our Bristol office. The successful candidate will provide high-quality and efficient Legal Secretarial support to Senior Associates and Associates within our General Liability & Medical team.
Key Internal Relationships
Head of Practice Services, partners and fee-earners within the General Liability & Medical team and secretarial colleagues.
Reporting Line
The role reports directly to the Head of Practice Services (Tina Lambert),
- Diary management of fee-earners as required, using own initiative to arrange meetings and conference calls
- Checking of fee-earner e-mails as required in their absence; responding where able
- Booking video/conference calls, meeting rooms and required refreshments, and making lunch and dinner reservations
- Making simple travel arrangements as required e.g. booking train tickets and collating itineraries
- Handling telephone enquiries in a professional and polite manner, taking accurate messages and following up on any agreed actions
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- Only those which are not mandated for production/collation by DPD or of a length that are typed by individual fee-earners
- Managing the workflow to DPD, Reprographics etc. as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
- Amending and formatting agreements/documents as required
- Short pieces of copy-typing and digital dictation as required
- Carrying out PDF to Word conversions and vice versa
- Collating all indexing on legal documentation and setting up files as necessary
- Production of short, less complex PowerPoint presentations as required
- Proof-reading of all documents to ensure the delivery of work of the highest quality
- Any general correspondence as may be required from time to time
- Insertion of business contact cards into Outlook and InterAction
- Processing fee-earner 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 team-based tasks
Previous experience of working within a busy corporate environment is essential - Excellent client care skills - the ability to deal with queries from internal and external clients in a professional and polite manner
- Excellent organisational skills - the ability to take responsibility for own tasks and prioritise work in a calm and efficient manner
- Demonstrate proactivity and the ability to work on own initiative
- Highly developed time management skills - the ability to work to very tight deadlines while maintaining a high standard of accuracy
- Highly developed communication skills - the ability to communicate in a confident and professional manner with people at all levels within the business
- Demonstrate flexibility/adaptability in meeting internal and external clients' demands - in both the nature of the work undertaken and working additional hours as required to complete the task(s)
- Reliable with a strong work ethic and a 'can-do' approach
- High levels of IT literacy in Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint (although more complex and/or lengthy documents are likely to be undertaken by others in dedicated roles)
- Highly developed administrative skills with the ability to multi-task under pressure
Documents/Correspondence
Support of other functions/activities: