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Job Title: Legal Secretary
Reports to: Practice Manager
Job Purpose: To support the Practice in the provision of high quality, professional legal services by performing competent and efficient secretarial duties.
Key Responsibilities:
- To support the Solicitor in the management of secretarial workload, ensuring that the priorities of the department are met.
- To support the Solicitor by typing dictated work as directed.
- To assist the Solicitor in the management of caseloads by dealing with file related queries either face to face or by telephone.
- To ensure that clients are dealt with efficiently and politely.
- To answer telephone calls efficiently and politely and take messages, as necessary.
- To ensure that all internal methods, systems, policies, and procedures are adhered to.
- To manage own work allocation, productivity, and quality of work with minimum supervision.
- Any other duties which could reasonably be expected to be required from time to time.
- Duties include but not limited to - Dictation and Will typing, Grant of Probate applications to HMCTS, LPA applications to Office of Public Guardian, diary management, HMRC form submissions.
Personal Qualities:
- Self-motivated and able to organise own work with minimum supervision.
- Cope effectively in demanding circumstances.
- Good time management, adopting a flexible approach to work.
- Deliver work output to the required standard.
- Pay attention to detail and quality of work.
- Operates effectively as part of a team.
This role is full time 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, working in a very busy Probate department working to strict deadlines.
