Legal Secretary

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.