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Legal Secretary / Assistant

Harwood Recruitment Solutions Limited
Posted 14 days ago, valid for 8 days
Location

Totnes, Devon TQ9 5TA

Contract type

Full Time

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  • A leading Law firm in Totnes is seeking an experienced Family Law Legal Secretary to join their supportive team.
  • The role involves managing dormant files, liaising with Fee Earners, and providing administrative support across departments.
  • Candidates should have previous experience in a similar role, although specific years of experience are not mentioned.
  • The position offers a salary of £25,000 per year along with excellent benefits including a parking permit and 25 days of holiday.
  • Additional opportunities for training and development are available, making this an attractive position for the right candidate.

I'm currently supporting a fast paced and leading Law firm based in Totnes who is looking for an experienced Family Law Legal Secretary to join their friendly and supportive team.

Duties include:

Identifying and locating open but dormant files and taking steps to close them, liaising

where necessary with the Fee Earner responsible, advising on time or financial balances and any outstanding work. Dealing with formal file closing and archiving where necessary.

Identifying and locating archives shown as booked out to individual Fee Earners and updating databases where necessary.

To provide cost effective administrative and secretarial support to all departments.

The jobholder is not designated as a matter handler for file review purposes and does not therefore have her/his own file caseload.

Deal wherever possible with routine client enquiries and communications.

Manage the collation of matter start and matter completion data.

Co-ordination of the key dates reminder system

Participation in marketing activities whether on a firm-wide, departmental or office basis.

Attendance at all staff meetings where required with contributions made at and subsequent to such events.

To respond to all work related internal emails where required to do so within 24 hours.

To become fully familiar with the staff handbook and to comply fully with the practice rules and procedures provided there in.

Please apply today, this role offers excellent benefits, including Parking permit, 25 days holiday plus plenty of training and development opportunities.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.