Legal Secretary

Walker Morris LLP; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in Leeds is looking for an experienced Secretary to support its fast-paced Employment law team. This role involves complex diary management, meeting arrangements, and various administrative tasks, essential for ensuring team productivity. The firm values proactivity and offers a hybrid working model post-probation.

Benefits

25 days annual leave, increasing to 31

Pension contributions of at least 6%

Annual bonus scheme up to 10%

Death in service benefit

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar administrative position preferred.
• Ability to work confidentially and respect all information.
• PC literacy with knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

• Manage diaries and arrange meetings for the Employment law team.
• Handle billing support and file management.
• Coordinate travel arrangements and manage enquiries.

Skills

Organizational skills

Interpersonal skills

Confidentiality

Initiative

Education

Legal secretarial experience

PC literacy (Office Suite)

Job description

Overview

Are you an experienced administrator or secretary? We are recruiting for a Secretary to join our fast-paced Employment law team.

Working alongside experienced secretaries and PAs within our Employment team, a legal fee earning department, you'll ensure that enquiries are dealt with efficiently. Your role as a secretary is crucial to the department's productivity as you will offer vital administrative support, coordination and diary management. No two days will be the same and so you'll benefit from having a proactive approach to work with excellent prioritisation and organisation skills.

As a Secretary, you will:

• Diary Management – you will coordinate schedules, meetings and appointments.
• Arrange meetings – book meeting rooms and refreshments, and ensure the relevant parties are notified in a timely manner.
• Travel Arrangements – planning and booking travel arrangements, ensuring the traveller has the relevant information for their trip.
• Billing support – liaising with solicitors and the finance team to process invoices
• File management – opening and closing of files with regular filing of hard and soft copy client-related correspondence in line with our company procedures.
• On-board clients – prepare client letters and ensure the relevant documentation is completed.
• Enquiry management – handle telephone and email enquiries
• General administrative duties – ad-hoc administration tasks as required by the department.

We are looking for:

• Experience of working within a similar position is preferred but not essential. Legal secretarial or professional services experience would be an advantage.
• PC literate with knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to professionally support senior stakeholders.
• Ability to organise, plan, prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Ability to work confidentially and on highly confidential matters; respecting and maintaining the confidentiality of all information relating to Walker Morris and client matters.
• Shows initiative and provides new ideas to improve team efficiency.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience, circa £26,000 to £28,000
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• This role is initially a work from office position during your probation period. Once complete we offer hybrid working Monday to Friday, our office is based in Leeds City Centre.

Find out more about working at Walker Morris here.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to ensure our workforce represents our diverse society. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique capabilities and experiences to their work. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity.

We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to ask.

Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.

Type of Working

Hybrid