Legal Secretary: Employment Law - Liverpool Street

McKinlay Law; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious law firm in London is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary with a background in employment law. The candidate will assist a partner and two fee earners, managing diaries, client interactions, and document management. Strong typing and IT skills are required. The office is conveniently located a short walk from Liverpool Street station, and an exceptional benefits package is on offer, including a significant bonus.

Benefits

Exceptional benefits package

Significant bonus

Qualifications

• Solid background as a legal secretary dealing with employment law is essential.
• Strong organisational and timekeeping skills are necessary.
• Very strong typing and IT skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Manage diaries for the partners and fee earners.
• Liaise extensively with clients and handle inquiries.
• Prepare documents including audio typing and digital dictation.
• Arrange meetings, book rooms, and manage appointments.
• Organize travel arrangements including visas and bookings.
• Handle confidential and sensitive information.

Skills

Legal secretarial skills

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Typing and IT skills

Job description

Overview

Legal Secretary: Employment Law - Liverpool Street, London

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Exciting opportunity for an experienced legal secretary, ideally with a background in employment law but will consider a litigation or commercial law background, to join a prestigious London law firm and assist a partner and two fee earners. The fee earners deal exclusively with employment work and so it is essential that you have a good legal secretarial background in this area. The Partner is looking for a secretary who will be pro-active, take the initiative and will develop a good relationship with their clients.

Responsibilities

• Diary management
• Extensive client liaison – taking messages, dealing with enquires, responding to correspondence etc.
• Typing and document management including audio typing and digital dictation
• Arranging meetings, booking rooms and managing appointments
• Organising all travel including visas, currency, hotel bookings etc.
• Handling confidential and sensitive information

Requirements/Qualifications

You must have a solid background as a legal secretary dealing with employment law, a flexible and proactive approach to your work and strong organisational and timekeeping skills. In addition, you must have very strong typing and IT skills as there will be a lot of dictation over the phone. Stunning offices a short walk from Liverpool Street station and an exceptional benefits package on offer including a big bonus.

McKinlay Law endeavour to contact all successful candidates within 24 hours. However, due to the volume of applications that we receive, we are not able to respond to every candidate individually. If you have not heard from us within 24 hours your application has been unsuccessful and we have not retained your details.