Legal Secretary - Litigation

Scatolificio Ondultecnica Settempedana; Tees Valley; Hybrid; GBP 15,000 - 19,000; Part time

Job summary

Tilly Bailey & Irvine LLP in Hartlepool is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary to join the Litigation team, providing essential secretarial and administrative support to fee earners to help deliver a friendly, responsive service to clients.

The role is office-based with options for part-time or full-time hours (minimum 2.5 days per week). Hours are 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday to Friday, and familiarity with case management, audio-typing, diary management, and file handling is preferred.

Qualifications

• Full generic secretarial support to fee earners, as required, including preparing correspondence and documents through fast and accurate audio-typing and word processing.
• Client contact on telephone and in person, dealing with queries and providing support in a professional and friendly manner in-keeping with the Firm’s standards for client care.

Responsibilities

• Make appointments, arrange meetings and maintain an up-to-date diary for fee earners.
• Open, maintain and close files on the case management system.
• Store and retrieve client files.
• Prepare mail and enclosures for dispatch.
• Provide support to other secretaries as required.

Skills

Audio-typing

Secretarial

Administrative support

Diary management

Customer service

Education

Experience in legal environment

Job description

Our Litigation team are looking for an experienced Legal Secretary to join their team in our Hartlepool office.

The Litigation team in our Hartlepool office, are looking for an experienced Legal Secretary, to support the department by providing secretarial and administrative support to the fee earners to enable them to deliver a friendly and responsive service to their clients.

The role is office based, and the hiring managers are open to part time or full time applications (minimum of 2.5 days required per week). Our office hours are Monday to Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm.

• Full generic secretarial support to fee earners, as required, including preparing correspondence and documents through fast and accurate audio-typing and word processing.
• Client contact on telephone and in person, dealing with queries such as initial enquiries, client progress updates and taking messages for fee earners, providing such support in a professional and friendly manner in-keeping with the Firm’s standards for client care.
• Making appointments, arranging meetings and maintaining an up-to-date diary for fee earners.
• Opening, maintaining and closing files on case management system.
• Storing and retrieving client files.
• Preparing mail and enclosures for dispatch.
• Providing support to other secretaries as required.

Experience of working in a legal environment is essential.

If you'd like to discuss this vacancy in confidence, please use the same e-mail address to get in touch.

Please refer to the start of our Careers page for the excellent range of employee benefits we offer.

No agencies please.

Contact us for more details on how we can help.

Limited Liability Partnership Registered in England Number OC315000

Tilly Bailey & Irvine LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England (number OC315000) and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.

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