Legal Secretary

Focus Resourcing; Oxford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable law firm in Reading is seeking a Legal Secretary to join their Dispute Resolution team. This role focuses on providing secretarial and administrative support, handling telephone enquiries, and managing files. Candidates should ideally have legal secretarial experience, strong literacy and typing skills, and work well in a professional environment. A competitive salary and benefits package is offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Great work environment

Qualifications

• Ideally previous legal secretarial experience.
• Strong literacy skills.
• Experience in an administrative/support role in a professional environment, preferably in a law firm.
• Strong typing and MS Office skills.
• Database skills.
• Team player.
• Enthusiastic, flexible with a friendly/professional manner.

Responsibilities

• Produce documents and correspondence as directed by solicitors.
• Efficient handling of telephone enquiries and calls.
• Provision of assistance to and dealing with tasks as delegated.
• File administration and data management.

Job description

Excellent opportunity to work with a highly successful solicitors who have a team of 60 specialist solicitors and advisers. You will be based in their central Reading office (no parking) and this role is purely office based.

They now need a Legal Secretary to join their growing Dispute Resolution team, to primarily support the team with secretarial and administrative support.

Your role:

• Produce documents and correspondence as directed by solicitors
• Efficient handling of telephone enquiries and calls
• Provision of assistance to and dealing with tasks as delegated
• File administration and data management

The person:

• Ideally previous legal secretarial experience
• Strong literacy skills
• Experience of working in an administrative/support in a professional environment, preferably a law firm
• Strong typing and MS Office skills
• Database skills
• Team player
• Enthusiastic, flexible with a friendly/professional manner

Our client offers a competitive salary and benefits package and a great work environment.