Job Title – Legal Secretary, Real Estate (hybrid working)
Salary – £22,500 – £27,000
Location – Sheffield
A superb new opportunity has arisen as a Legal Secretary at a highly successful full-service, global law firm. This firm works with a variety of clients across the world. The full time, permanent position lends a chance to join a firm with a fantastic reputation, which is increasingly growing due to its success. The right candidate will be an ambitious individual, keen to become established within a superb administration ability.
This would be a perfect opportunity for a Commercial Property/Real Estate or Conveyancing Secretary to gain a higher salary and hybrid working.
Benefits:
- Company wide bonus scheme of 5% salary (discretionary)
- 25 days holiday + statutory bank holidays
- 50% off your current gym membership & corporate membership with Virgin Active and Nuffield gyms
- Critical illness insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Income protection
- Dental insurance
- Life assurance, 5x your salary
- Extended Maternity/Adoption & Shared Parental leave
- Study assistance
- Interest free loans
About the Role
Our prestigious client in Sheffield have an opportunity for an experienced Legal Secretary, providing a high-quality and efficient secretarial service to fee-earners and trainee solicitors in a busy Real Estate Transactions team. Reporting directly to the Secretarial Services Manager, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
• Preparation of hard and soft copy engrossments and other legal documents
• Copy-typing and digital dictation as required
• Amending and formatting documents
• PDF conversions
• Proof reading and quality checking of documents and correspondence
• Working within Excel documents
• Diary and email management for the fee-earners within your team
• Travel arrangements and handling telephone enquiries as and when required
• Processing fee-earner expenses
• Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
• Liaison with Finance and other business support teams
• Assisting across other teams when necessary
• Copy-typing and digital dictation as required
• Amending and formatting documents
• PDF conversions
• Proof reading and quality checking of documents and correspondence
• Working within Excel documents
• Diary and email management for the fee-earners within your team
• Travel arrangements and handling telephone enquiries as and when required
• Processing fee-earner expenses
• Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
• Liaison with Finance and other business support teams
• Assisting across other teams when necessary
About You
You will need to be adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach, demonstrating high levels of client care, organisational and time management skills.
You will have gained real estate experience within a law firm demonstrating a proactive and enthusiastic approach with high levels of IT literacy, superb attention to detail and the ability to learn new systems quickly.
You will have gained real estate experience within a law firm demonstrating a proactive and enthusiastic approach with high levels of IT literacy, superb attention to detail and the ability to learn new systems quickly.