Family Legal Secretary

Yolk Recruitment Ltd; Bath; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks a Family Legal Secretary to join a Family Law team based in Bath or Chippenham. The role requires strong administrative skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to work under pressure. The ideal candidate will manage diaries, prepare legal documents, and liaise with clients in a professional manner. This is a full-time, permanent role, and part-time hours will be considered, with a salary of up to £28k depending on experience.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Employee benefits package

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Strong administrative experience with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident communicator, both written and verbal, with a friendly and professional manner.
• Comfortable managing a busy workload and working at pace while staying calm under pressure.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft packages.
• Previous legal secretary experience and familiarity with Lexcel standards are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Providing day-to-day secretarial and administrative support to fee earners in Family Law.
• Managing diaries, opening files, typing correspondence, and preparing files for billing.
• Handling calls, messages, post, and emails, sorting and prioritising effectively.
• Preparing straightforward legal documents and supporting across the team as required.
• Liaising with clients and other parties, offering a professional and understanding approach.

Skills

Strong administrative experience

Excellent attention to detail

Confident communicator

Good IT skills

Previous legal secretary experience

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Family Legal Secretary

Location: Bath

Salary: Up to £28k D.O.E

Yolk Recruitment is supporting a recruitment campaign for a Legal Secretary to join a Family Law team based in Bath or Chippenham. This Legal Secretary role suits someone who is organised, calm, and client-focused, with the empathy and professionalism needed when supporting clients through sensitive family matters. This is a full-time, permanent role, and part-time hours will be considered.

This is what you will be doing

Your day to day duties will include:

• Providing day-to-day secretarial and administrative support to fee earners in Family Law.
• Managing diaries, opening files, typing correspondence, and preparing files for billing.
• Handling calls, messages, post and emails, sorting and prioritising effectively.
• Preparing straightforward legal documents and supporting across the team as required.
• Liaising with clients and other parties, offering a professional and understanding approach.

The experience you will bring to the team

You will bring the following experience to the Family team:

• Strong administrative experience with excellent attention to detail.
• Confident communicator, both written and verbal, with a friendly and professional manner.
• Comfortable managing a busy workload and working at pace while staying calm under pressure.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft packages.
• Previous legal secretary experience (desirable) and familiarity with Lexcel standards (desirable).

This is what you will get in return

• Competitive salary.
• Full-time permanent position, with part-time hours considered.
• A supportive team environment with a strong focus on client care.
• Employee benefits package and a positive culture.

Are you up to the challenge?

If you're a Legal Secretary ready to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today or get in touch to find out more. All enquiries will be handled in the strictest confidence by Yolk Recruitment. If you are looking to pursue the next step in your career with a highly regarded law firm, we encourage you to apply by contacting Oliver Coodye on 07458 142 713 or alternatively send your CV.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.

Please note, whilst we do our best to contact all candidates, due to the high number of applications we receive we cannot guarantee this for every role. If you have not heard anything from us within 7 days of applying - then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful. Please keep an eye on our website for more opportunities.