Family Team Legal Secretary – St Albans

GT Stewart Ltd; St Albans; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme with employer contrib.

Annual leave 23 days

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Benenden Health Care

Firm laptop

Ongoing training and development

Bi-annual staff events

Competitive training packages

Job summary

GT Stewart Ltd in St Albans is seeking a permanent, full-time Family & Childcare Team Secretary to join our busy office to support fee earners with admin, dictation, typing and diary management.

The ideal candidate will have legal secretary experience, an interest in Family law, excellent typing, organisation and communication skills, and the ability to work under pressure in a busy multi-office firm.

Qualifications

• Experience as a legal secretary or similar with an interest in family & childcare law.
• Demonstrated interest in Family law.
• Strong organisational skills and ability to work under pressure.
• Fast and accurate typing with spelling accuracy.
• Clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Type from digital dictation or copy typing.
• Handle telephone calls to/from clients, Counsel and third parties.
• Keep appointment diaries for Fee Earners or senior team members.
• Greet clients and manage visitors to the office.
• Ensure compliance with office procedures per Practice Manual.
• Deal with CCMS legal aid matters / applications.
• Process fee notes and matters pertaining to experts' invoices.
• Support other administrative tasks as required.

Skills

Legal secretary

Family law

Typing

Organisational skills

Communication

Diary management

Telephone handling

Tools

Dictation software

Microsoft Office

CCMS

Job description

We are seeking a permanent, full-time Family & Childcare Team Secretary for our busy St Albans office to join our expanding team.

Your Profile

You will preferably:

• Have some experience working as a legal secretary or similar with a pretense for experience in family & childcare law

• Be able to aim to demonstrate an interest in Family law

• Have strong organisational skills

• Have the ability to work under pressure

• Fast and accurate typing skills and spelling

• Clear and precise written and verbal communication skills

We would like the ideal candidate:

• To type from digital dictation, or otherwise including copy typing

• To do such electronic filing as may ne required from time to time

• To deal with telephone calls whether incoming or outgoing from clients, Counsel, experts and other third parties

• To keep appointment diaries for any Fee Earner or any Senior Member of the team

• To deal with clients and others visiting the office as may be appropriate

• To ensure compliance with all office procedures as laid down in the Practice Manual including any variations or amendments

• To deal with CCMS legal aid matters / applications

• To action any fee notes and / or matters pertaining to experts' invoices

• Any other such matters as required

Working With Us

The salary for this position is dependent on experience.

We will offer ongoing training and support to develop your career as part of a strong and growing multi-office team.

Our offices are friendly, working entirely paperless with recent significant investment in modern IT to enable you to work proficiently.

We offer a great package of annual leave to ensure you get enough time away from work. Our annual leave for this role provides 23 days (plus bank holidays / Christmas and New Year).

We review annual leave and increase with service.

Employee Benefits

• Competitive base salary

• Pension Scheme with employer contribution

• Additional Birthday leave

• Electric Vehicle Scheme

• Optional Benenden Health Care

• Administrative support

• Firm laptop

• Ongoing training and development

• Supportive supervision from mentors

• Annual appraisals and salary reviews

• Bi-annual parties for Summer and Christmas

• Additional perks and benefits

• Competitive training packages

We have a dedicated in-bound telephony team to take calls and messages for our fee earners. Lawyers also have the benefit of dictation and support staff to assist in easing the pressure and enabling efficient working.

We are a multi-office, multi-service Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners firm recognised for excellence in a variety of legal fields.