Real Estate Legal Secretary

Gateley; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal services firm in Nottingham is seeking a proactive Legal Secretary to support its commercial Real Estate Development team. This role involves managing diaries, liaising with stakeholders, and producing high-quality documents. The ideal candidate will have legal secretarial experience, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work under pressure. The role offers a hybrid working arrangement, with competitive remuneration and a range of benefits, reflecting our commitment to employee development and wellbeing.

Benefits

Competitive remuneration package

Annual bonus opportunity

Flexible working arrangements

Comprehensive rewards package including health care and pension benefits

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a legal secretary is essential.
• Ability to efficiently draft and produce documents.
• Must possess strong verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide secretarial support to the Real Estate Development team.
• Manage diaries and organize meetings with stakeholders.
• Ensure a seamless secretarial support service for fee earners.

Skills

Previous legal secretarial experience

Typing and document production skills

First-class communication skills

Excellent accuracy

Self-motivation

Ability to work under pressure

Time management

Discretion and confidentiality

IT skills - Microsoft Word

Job description

Overview

The Role: We are looking to recruit a proactive Legal Secretary who can provide support to our commercial Real Estate Development team in Nottingham. You will join our established and highly respected commercial Real Estate team who act on a variety of development, finance, investment, and joint-venture matters. Our Legal Secretaries retain a traditional role, working closely with a small number of fee earners. We offer a hybrid working arrangement of 3 days in the office and 2 days at home for full-time staff.

The Team

Our national Real Estate team has an outstanding reputation for its technical and commercial expertise across all disciplines, including commercial development, commercial investment, mixed-use development, landlord and tenant, retail and leisure, finance and securitisation, real estate litigation, planning and environmental. The team also supports Gateley Legal\'s corporate, banking and restructuring teams and works with Gateley Capitus, Gateley Hamer, Gateley Vinden, Gateley Smither Purslow and Gateley RJA. The Team is friendly, supportive, and sociable, and you can expect to be supported by partners and senior team members and to support junior members of the team.

The Person

The successful candidate will be confident liaising with multiple stakeholders and clients, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless secretarial support service.

In Particular, We Look For The Following Attributes

• Previous legal secretarial experience
• Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is essential.
• First class communication skills both written and verbal.
• Excellent levels of accuracy.
• Initiative to learn and ability to self-motivate.
• Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines with the ability to remain calm.
• Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills.
• Always demonstrate discretion and the ability to maintain absolute confidentiality at all times.
• IT skills - Microsoft Word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.

About You

About Us

The Benefits

With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues, development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus. In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are Gateley

We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too. The Gateley Story is the story of our people and our culture, and it is the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing

Diversity, inclusion and wellbeing are important parts of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture. We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies. We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.

Additional Information

If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.