Job Description:

Job information Residential Property Legal Secretary from the Company Holmes and Hills LLP, this latest Residential Property Legal Secretary job vacancy is located in the city Halstead CO JE located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Residential field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

The Role

The prime role of the legal secretary is to provide across team support to the Fee Earners (and in their absence, paralegals, or legal assistants) within the Residential Property department to enable them to operate at optimum efficiency. This will include but will not be limited to the main responsibilities given below. The legal secretary is expected to use a high degree of self-management and initiative. The Day to Day:

• Type documents, letters, attendance notes, file notes & bills, via Bighand/Speechwrite digital dictation on a pool system basis.
• Administer electronic filing which will include daily filing and the opening, closing, storage and retrieval of client files
• To prepare mail and enclosures for despatch.
• To provide support to other secretaries/legal assistants/paralegals/fee earners as required.
• To provide guidance to junior and temporary secretaries when required to do so.
• To attend clients both in person and on the telephone and to provide such support in a professional and friendly manner in keeping with the firm's standards for client care.
• To collaborate with and support other secreataries across the team using technology such a paperlite systems and Teams for communication and information sharing
• To undertake any specific training when required to do so and overall to have a responsibility towards self-development.
• To ensure the confidentiality of all the firm's and clients' documentation and information.
• To update and keep updated electronic checklists within the case management system.

What experience do I need?

• Trained in secretarial practice.
• Fast and accurate word-processing and audio-typing skills.
• Previous experience as a legal secretary or experience of working in an alternative professional office.

What skills should I have?

• Team player
• Excellent communication skills,
• Great time Management and prioritization skills.
• Relationship building

What are we offering?

• A supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.
• 28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
• Medicash and Unum dental cash back schemes after 1 years' service
• Life insurance
• EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services including virtual GP access 24/7
• Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
• Company sick pay
• Cycle scheme

About us

Holmes & Hills Solicitors is a large regional firm of solicitors with seven offices across Essex and Suffolk and over 200 legal professionals across a number of specialist departments. Holmes & Hills works in partnership with clients across East Anglia, including businesses, individuals, families and local authorities, to build long standing relationships, protect clients' interests and support clients' growth and development.

Working in partnership with businesses and individuals

Holmes & Hills' large team of legal experts work in partnership with individuals and organisations to provide them with truly proactive legal services through personal relationships. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, we take the time to understand clients' needs and objectives before delivering practical advice through a personal and accessible approach.

Independently recognised as a leading law firm

Holmes & Hills Solicitors is independently recognised by The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners - two independent directories of the UK's top law firms - as being a leading supplier of legal services in the region.

These accreditations give our clients the confidence that the legal advice and representation they receive from Holmes & Hills is some of the best available.

Our clients range from established and growing businesses whose brands are recognised and sold around the world and local authorities across the region, through to families and first-time home buyers.

Keywords : Halstead jobs

Closed Date : 2024-12-22