Legal Secretary
About the Role
Sewell Wallis are excited to be working with a global law firm who are very well respected. Due to expansion, they're looking to recruit a Legal Secretary to join their long-standing team.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with previous secretary or administration experience in a legal setting, and looking to develop this further.
On offer is a great salary of up to £26,000 per year, and the opportunity to work from home 2 days per week.
What will you be doing?
- Preparation of hard and soft copy engrossments and other legal documents
- Copy-typing and digital dictation as required
- Amending and formatting documents
- PDF conversions
- Assisting with weekly/monthly reporting
- Proofreading and quality checking of documents and correspondence
- Working within Excel documents
- Diary and email management for the fee-earners within your team
- Travel arrangements and handling telephone enquiries as and when required
- Processing fee-earner expenses
- Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room, etc, as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
- Liaison with Finance and other business support teams
- Assisting across other teams when necessary
What skills are we looking for?
- Previous experience as an administrator or secretary
- Previous experience in a legal environment
- Excellent IT skills
- Able to work in a fast-paced environment
What's in it for you?
- Working from home a few days per week.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- 50% towards your gym membership.
- Bonus scheme.
- 25 days holiday.
- Loyalty awards.
Send us your CV below, or contact Lewis Walker for more information.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
