We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Legal Secretary to join our busy Commercial Property & Development team.
You will have exposure to a wide range of high quality work as you work as part of a team to provide secretarial and administrative support to help our legal teams deliver great service to our clients.
Your key duties will be:
- providing timely and effective support to requests for assistance from members of the team
- producing accurate correspondence and documentation; this includes the use of digital dictation
- attending to clients in person and on the phone taking messages and assisting where appropriate
- using a practice management system to progress and monitor matter finances
- setting up and monitoring electronic financial payments
- preparing, submitting and monitoring applications to the Land Registry through a portal
- managing file opening, closure and archiving
- producing bills and other financial administration
- managing diaries for the team, planning and organising meetings and making travel arrangements
- organising and maintaining departmental filing systems and document storage
- photocopying, scanning, faxing, printing, filing and other general administrative tasks
Skills and experience you will have:
- a minimum of 6 months’ experience working in a legal secretarial role
- fast and accurate audio-typing skills
- confidence with IT systems to include Microsoft Word, Excel and ideally PowerPoint
- excellent oral and written communications skills
- excellent organisational skills, flexibility and the ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously
- ambitious and enthusiastic to provide an excellent ‘audio typing’ service to the team
- work well in a team and develop good working relationships with colleagues and others
Meet the team:
Our Commercial Property team are one of the fastest growing real estate practices, having more than doubled income and significantly strengthened the team over the last two and half years. With the support of Planning and Construction, we have one of the best integrated teams. We act for local and national developers, pension funds and venture capitalists as well as foreign investors on projects throughout the UK. Our experienced team has assisted in the development and sale of over 4m sq ft of town centre and out of town retail and leisure development as well as industrial and distribution hubs, offices and mixed use schemes.
About us:
It’s the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams, together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs. |
We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.
We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.
We have hubs in Birmingham, Leicester, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be predominantly working from our Birmingham office hub with flexibility to work from home.
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Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.
Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.
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Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. |
