Legal Secretary

Harwood Recruitment Solutions Ltd; Walsall; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

Harwood Recruitment Solutions Ltd in Walsall seeks an experienced legal secretarial assistant to support the Child Care Public Law department in a busy, well established firm.

The role requires fast accurate typing, strong IT skills, and familiarity with care proceedings, legal aid applications and billing processes. You will work as part of a team delivering a first-class service to clients with high empathy.

Qualifications

• Ideally 1 year experience in child care/public law matters.
• Computer literate with fast accurate typing.
• Excellent team player with a commitment to first-class client service.
• High empathy when dealing with vulnerable clients.

Responsibilities

• Urgent In Box: Review incoming emails for time-sensitive court orders.
• Post and document scans to case management system.
• Make Legal Aid applications and upload to CCMS.
• Electronic diary management and time recording.
• Liaise with professionals to issue instructions.
• Create and paginate electronic court bundles using Bundledocs.
• Open new files and perform conflict checks.
• Prepare files for final billing on closed cases.

Skills

Typing skills

Computer literacy

Family law knowledge

Legal aid familiarity

Billing procedures

Team player

Empathy with clients

Time recording

Diary management

Tools

CCMS

Bundledocs

Job description

I'm currently recruiting for for an experienced legal secretarial assistant to work in the Child Care Public Law department of a busy and well established Law firm in Walsall.

The ideal person will have fast accurate typing skills and be computer literate, as well as good working knowledge of children and family law procedures, familiar with online legal aid applications and billing procedures would be an advantage. They act for families and children and client service where high quality work is their priority.

If you are an excellent team player with a keen interest in providing a first class service to our clients and enthusiasm to promote and grow with the firm then get in touch.

This is a fully office based role, 9am - 5pm - Monday to Friday.

Attributes:

• Ideally have 1 year experience of child care/public law matters, but previous Legal experience is essential.
• Computer literate with fast accurate typing skills
• Excellent team player with a keen interest to providing a first class service to our clients
• High empathy when speaking with vulnerable clients facing family or care proceedings
• Familiar with legal aid applications and billing procedures
• Familiar with care proceedings, bundles and court proceedings

Duties include:

• Urgent In Box: Review incoming e mail for immediate Court orders of time sensitive email from local authority and others.
• Post and Document scans: scanning post and saving to case management system.
• Making Legal Aid applications
• Legal Aid Administration: involving upload of mandatory documents, updates and funding requests to the Legal Aid Agency via the Client and Case Management System (CCMS)
• Electronic diary management
• Time Recording
• Liaison with Professionals: Contacting independent social workers, child psychologists, or medical experts to confirm availability and sending out formal instruction letters.
• Court Bundle compilation: Creating, index and paginate electronic court bundles containing Court Orders, threshold findings and expert reports using software like Bundledocs.
• File Management: Opening new files and performing conflict of interest checks for new cases in accordance with policies.
• Billing Management: Preparing files for final billing for cases that are closed.