Legal Secretary

Co-op Group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent legal services provider is seeking a Legal Secretary in Bristol or Manchester. The role involves providing key administrative support to the family law team, managing client appointments, billing processes, and document preparation. Candidates with secretarial experience and strong organizational skills are encouraged to apply. This position offers a competitive salary of £24,570 along with excellent benefits including annual bonuses and up to 32 days of holiday.

Benefits

30% off Co-op branded products

Annual bonus based on performance

28 days holiday

Pension with up to 10% employer contributions

Coaching and training support

Qualifications

• Experience as a secretary.
• Strong literacy skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Great communication and relationship building skills.
• Excellent organization and prioritization skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist the solicitors with their cases.
• Prepare trial bundles and briefs for counsel.
• Manage outgoing correspondence for the family law team.
• Responsible for billing clients and processing customer cheques.
• Organize the storage of family law files.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Organization skills

Customer service skills

Job description

Overview

Legal Secretary
£24,570 plus excellent benefits (Work level 6C)
Bristol or Manchester - You\'ll complete your training at one of our offices, then you\'ll have the option to work in a hybrid way, dividing your time between working from home and the office.

We\'re looking for a legal secretary to join our family law team at Co-op Legal Services. In this role you\'ll provide key administrative support to our family department, ensuring everything runs smoothly and our clients receive the best possible service. You\'ll primarily book appointments with clients, own the billing process and create bundles and briefs, alongside some typing and organisational work. You\'ll work exclusively on private client family matters funded privately. You don\'t need legal experience for this role, so if you have the secretarial skills we\'re looking for we can offer you the chance to build on your secretarial skills in an ethical business with exciting plans for the future.

What you\'ll do

• assist the solicitors with their cases
• prepare trial bundles and briefs for counsel
• take responsibility for the family law team post; manage any outgoing correspondence
• be responsible for billing clients and processing customer cheques as well as raising invoices for any external services used
• organise the storage of family law files accurately recording all data
• some dictation and typing work

This role would suit people who have

• previous experience as a secretary
• strong literacy skills with excellent attention to detail
• great communication and relationship building skills
• excellent organisation and prioritisation skills within a fast-paced and varied role
• excellent customer service skills

Why Co-op?

If you\'ve got the skills and experience we\'re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You\'ll also get:

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream - a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it

Building an inclusive work environment

We\'re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We\'re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we\'ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We\'ll ask whether you\'d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we\'ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.
You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

If you\'re successful in your application, we\'ll perform some background checks as part of our pre-employment screening process. These will include an SRA check, credit checks, and a DBS (disclosure and barring service) check. Please note Co-op does not offer visa sponsorship for this role.
As part of your application, you\'ll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes up to 50 minutes. If you\'re a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.