Secretary

TLT LLP; West of England; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

25 days holiday (30 with service)

Annual pay review

Flexible benefits scheme

Job summary

TLT LLP is seeking a Legal Secretary to join the Real Estate - Property Litigation team in Bristol on a full-time basis. The role covers secretarial tasks, billing, diary management, and proofing legal documents, supporting fee earners in a busy legal environment.

You will work within a UK-wide firm known for its extensive property expertise, with hybrid working and a strong emphasis on flexibility and professional development.

Qualifications

• Previous Legal Secretary experience.
• Proficient with Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Experience in case management systems.
• Excellent prioritising and organisational skills.
• Ability to self-manage a large workload in a busy team.
• Confident in delegating work when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide secretarial support to the Real Estate - Property Litigation team.
• Assist fee earners with financial management, including disbursements and client billing.
• Create monthly invoices for clients.
• Diary management for fee earners; arrange meetings and book venues.
• Proofread and align legal reports and documents to house style.

Skills

Legal secretary experience

Outlook

Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Case management systems

Prioritisation

Workload management

Delegation

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

We are recruiting for a Legal Secretary to join our Real Estate - Property Litigation team in Bristol. This role is being offered on a full-time basis.

Your Role

As a Legal Secretary, your day to day remit includes:

• Supporting the team by carrying out all secretarial tasks and help, when necessary, with all administrative tasks.
• Assisting the fee earners with financial management e.g. disbursements, client balances, dealing with a range of client specific billing requirements.
• Create the monthly invoices to be issued to the clients.
• Diary management for all fee earners; arranging internal and external appointments and, making arrangements for meetings; booking meetings rooms or external venues as required.
• Proof reading, amending and house styling legal reports and non TLT documents.

Your Skills and Experience

• Previous Legal Secretary experience.
• Extensive experience in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel are required.
• Experience in case management systems.
• Exceptional prioritising/organisational skills.
• Strong ability to self-manage a large workload in a busy team.
• Confident in delegation of work when necessary.

Your Team

We are one of the UK's largest real estate groups, with a team of over 180, advising on thousands of transactions across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each year. Clients instruct us for this experience, our depth of expertise and sector know-how. Many of our real estate partners are independently recognised as leading individuals in the field by the legal industry's annual directory rankings. Clients including many in-house lawyers trust us with both 'high profile' and business as usual work.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.

Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients, recognised as their 1st tier adviser and being valued for our values. We do this in our unique way by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious for their success.

In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute to the success of TLT.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people. We’re happy to talk about how flexible working can work for you and this role.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on [e-mail]