Legal Secretary Private Client

Harwood Recruitment Solutions Ltd; Clitheroe; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Harwood Recruitment Solutions Ltd is seeking a Legal Secretary/Assistant to join a busy Private Client team in the North West. The role focuses on supporting the principal with a high degree of self-management, delivering efficient administrative and secretarial services.

Key duties include typing, filing, diary management, arranging meetings, and providing guidance to junior secretaries. A professional, client-focused approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Prepare correspondence and documents using audio typing and word processing software.
• Administer filing including daily filing, opening, storage and retrieval of client files.
• Prepare mail and enclosures for dispatch.
• Arrange copying as needed.
• Make appointments and maintain an up-to-date diary for the principal.

Responsibilities

• Attend clients in person or by telephone and provide professional, friendly client care.
• Provide guidance to junior and temporary secretaries when required.
• Support other secretaries as required.
• Undertake training and show initiative to develop skills.

Skills

Audio typing

Word processing

Diary management

Client communication

Office software

Tools

Microsoft Word

Email systems

Job description

I'm currently supporting a multipleoffice practice which provides a comprehensive rangeof legal services to clients across the North West and UK, who is recruiting for a Legal Secretary / Assistant to join their busy Private Client team. They invest in training and development programmes and provide a working environment, which is both supportive and challenging. Blending traditional values of personal and costeffective advice with a modern and fresh approach we have achieved numerous accreditations and awards.

The main role of the Private client legal secretary is to provide direct support to his/her principal to enable them to operate at optimum efficiency. This will include but will not be limited to the key responsibilities given below. The legal secretary is expected to usea high degree of self-management and initiative.

Key Objectives

• Prepare correspondence and documents using audio typing and word processing software.
• Administer filing which will include daily filing and the opening, closing, storage and retrieval of client files in accordance with the detailed procedures contained in the office manual.
• Prepare mail and enclosures for dispatch.
• Arrange for all copying to be done, in person if the office assistant is not available to undertake the task.
• Make appointments, arrange meetings and to maintain an up-to-date diary for their principal.
• Provide support to other secretaries as required.
• Provide guidance to junior and temporary secretaries when required to do so.
• Attend clients both in person and on the telephone and to provide such support in a professional and friendly manner in keeping with the firm’s standards for client care.
• Undertake any specific training when required to do so and overall to have a responsibility towards self-development.