Legal Secretary (Corporate)

Squire Patton Boggs; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary for its Manchester office. The role involves supporting the Corporate practice group, managing complex billing tasks, extensive diary management, and client inceptions. This dynamic position requires a proactive individual with a strong background in a professional service firm, excellent communication skills, and the ability to juggle multiple priorities effectively.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a professional service firm.
• Proven experience supporting at Partner level in a law firm.
• Experience with complex billing and client inceptions.

Responsibilities

• Support the Corporate practice group with secretarial and administration tasks.
• Manage extensive diaries and client reporting.
• Handle complex billing tasks and assist with KYC requirements.

Skills

Organisation

Communication

Attention to detail

Flexibility

Initiative

Job description

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Our thriving Manchester office is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our team. We need you to be an organised, professional individual who has a "can do" attitude and willing to go that extra mile to help colleagues at all times.

Our Firm

Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations. More than 1,500 lawyers in 40 offices on four continents provide unrivalled access to expertise. In the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.

Our Team

You will be supporting the Corporate practice group providing secretarial and administration support. You'll be reporting into the Manchester office Secretarial Services Manager and will be working alongside Partners and Associates and other Secretaries.

In this dynamic and busy role, no two days will be the same. This role would be ideal for someone who is an experienced Secretary with exposure to supporting at Partner level in a national or global law firm.

You'll work alongside the existing teams as well as taking ownership of complex billing tasks and client reporting; client and matter inceptions (including understanding KYC requirements); extensive diary management and dealing with international travel.

You must have a positive and professional approach at all times, and work efficiently in a very busy team.

Monday-Friday, - Hybrid working available

You

As this is a varied role, you'll need to be an organised, proactive individual who can easily prioritise and juggle workloads. You'll need to have the flexibility to assist other departments when required. You should also be able to use your initiative and spot where help is needed with limited supervision.

You'll also have experience of complex billing, client inceptions, managing busy inboxes and extensive diary management. Proven experience of working in a law firm is essential.

As you will be dealing with clients of the firm, excellent communication skills are key for this role. Ideally, you'll have good knowledge of all Microsoft packages along with strong keyboard skills, and a good eye for detail is a must.

You will have a minimum of 5 years' experience of working in a professional service firm.

What you need to know

If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our Careers website at in the first instance. We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis, please complete an online application.

We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our diverse society. 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 will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.