Legal Secretary - Serious Injury

Slater Gordon; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consumer law firm in Manchester is seeking an experienced Legal Secretary/Assistant to join their Serious Injury team. The role involves supporting Fee Earners with diverse tasks, reviewing records, managing medical instructions, and liaising with clients. Candidates with prior legal secretarial experience are preferred. The position offers a hybrid working model, flexible hours, and comprehensive benefits including health programs and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays

Employee Referral scheme

Group Incentive Plan

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Workplace pension

Free legal help and discounted services

Qualifications

• Experience in a legal secretarial role is required.
• No law degree is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Chase medical reports.
• Review records and prepare trial bundles.
• Manage medical/treatment instructions and send instructions to Counsel.
• Pay disbursements and draft letters to clients.
• Run retainers and assist Fee Earners with various tasks.
• Review CCTV and book legal hearings.
• Arrange conferences and manage ledgers.

Skills

Previous legal secretarial experience

Job description

We are recruiting for an experienced Legal Secretary/Assistant to join our successful Serious Injury team in London.

Responsibilities

• Chase medical reports
• Review records and prepare trial bundles
• Manage medical/treatment instructions and send instructions to Counsel
• Pay disbursements and draft letters to clients
• Run retainers and assist our Fee Earners with various tasks
• Review CCTV and book legal hearings
• Arrange conferences, manage ledgers (client balances and aged debt), file transfers and provide updates to our clients

Qualifications

• Previous legal secretarial experience
• Law degree is not required

Slater and Gordon are a leading consumer law firm, and our mission is to give people easier access to world class legal services. We are a legal services business powered by technology and led by people that support customers in every step of their case.

Client service is at the heart of Slater and Gordon and we take pride in the impressive headlines we generate, demonstrating our range of work and the relentless pursuit of justice by our Solicitors.

Benefits

• Hybrid working – 2 days per week in the office (must live a reasonable distance to commute)
• 35 hours per week – Monday to Friday – Flexible and agile working environment
• 25 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Buy and sell annual leave up to 5 days
• Employee Referral scheme with payments up to £2000 per referral
• Group Incentive Plan (Annual Bonus Scheme)
• Aviva Digicare+ Workplace App providing services including annual health checks, access to Digital GP's, mental health consultations, 2nd medical opinions and much more
• Employee Assistance Programme – free webinars for stress awareness and counselling sessions
• Group Income Protection – support with an income if unable to work long term due to illness or injury
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes and apps including gym discounts, private medical insurance, cycle to work scheme, meditation sessions and much more
• Life Assurance cover
• Workplace pension
• Benefits Hub providing discounts to over 700 services including cinema tickets, food and drink, travel and high street stores
• Dental Insurance
• Free legal help and discounted lawyer led legal services

Professional Development

We will also support and encourage you with developing your career with an award‑winning law firm. We run courses across our offices and are continuously monitoring and updating the learning and development offering based on what you tell us. We can support you with your continuous professional development by providing funding for professional qualifications, attending external training courses and providing you with a range of internal learning resources.

Our Values

• We do what we say we will
• We don't wait we create
• We own it, we sort it
• We respect and encourage each other
• We make time to live

Like all great businesses, we strive to recruit the best people and uphold the highest legal standards. Our people bring something a little different. We hire people who can challenge, remove roadblocks and deliver outstanding customer service. That's why at Slater + Gordon we go further with our values. How we work is guided by the S+G Way.