Legal Secretary

Meridian Business Support; Maidstone; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment specialist is seeking a Legal Secretary to join a top law firm in Maidstone. In this role, you will provide support to multiple fee earners within a collaborative Corporate team, ensuring various legal support tasks are efficiently managed. The ideal candidate has prior experience as a Legal Secretary and possesses strong IT and client care skills. Salary ranges from £30,000 to £32,000, alongside comprehensive benefits including private healthcare and life assurance.

Benefits

Life assurance

Private healthcare

Charity day

Company social events

Birthday off

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Legal Secretary or Secretary in a professional services environment.
• Ability to prioritise workload while providing empathetic client care.
• Accuracy and proficiency in IT skills, especially MS Office.

Responsibilities

• Support multiple fee earners with legal support tasks.
• Manage diary and set up meetings, calls, and appointments.
• Produce financial reports and maintain dashboards.

Skills

Client care

Diary management

IT skills (MS Office)

Proofreading

Audio typing

Job description

Overview

Would you like a Legal Secretary role that will see you make an impact in an innovative, progressive firm that prides itself on putting its people first along with their clients, and fostering a culture of career development and progression? Would you like the chance to work in a collaborative culture where your ideas are valued?

An exciting Legal Secretary opportunity has arisen at the stunning offices of our client, one of the UK's top law firms where you will be providing support to multiple fee earners within the highly collaborative Corporate team, who get involved in a wide range of corporate matters. Your lynchpin role will encompass taking ownership of processes to ensure various legal support tasks are completed for those you support, meaning they are able to concentrate on fee earning tasks.

As a Legal Secretary your new role will involve:

Responsibilities

• Working alongside business support teams (e.g. document production) internally to ensure tasks are completed to deadlines
• Producing financial reports and maintaining dashboards
• Supporting with billing processes
• Opening new clients / new matters and closing matters
• Diary management and setting up meetings, calls and appointments
• Supporting with preparing pitches and presentations
• Maintaining and updating client information on the CRM system
• Building relationships both with internal stakeholders and clients

Qualifications

• Experience working as a Legal Secretary, or Secretary (from within a professional services environment) supporting multiple fee earners / professionals
• A passion for empathetic client care and adaptability, with the ability to prioritise your own workload
• Proof reading, audio typing / digital dictation, accuracy and IT skills (MS Office)
• Experience supporting fee earners within a Corporate legal team is desirable but not essential

Salary and Benefits

Salary for this position is c. £30,000 to £32,000 (depending on level of experience).

Benefits include: life assurance, private healthcare, Group Income Protection, your birthday off (if it falls on a working day), charity day to use each year, Employee Assistance Programme, and company social events.

Location and Company

The company’s stunning offices offer free parking close by to the offices; however, if you are travelling by public transport they are only a short 10-15 minutes walk from the nearest train station.

Meridian Business Support is a recruitment specialist acting on behalf of our client as an Employment Agency for this vacancy

Job Info

• Job Title: Legal Secretary
• Company: Meridian Business Support
• Location: Maidstone, Kent
• Posted: Sep 9th 2025
• Closes: Oct 10th 2025
• Sector: Administration
• Contract: Permanent
• Hours: Full Time

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