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Date Added: Wed 26/06/2024

Conveyancing Legal Secretary

Birmingham, UK
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Company: DOUGLAS SCOTT LEGAL RECRUITMENT

Job Type: Permanent, PartTime

Salary: £22,000 - £27,000 per annum

Legal Secretary - ConveyancingSolihull - Part Time£24,000 - £28,000A fantastic, top 200 established Birmingham firm, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their already impressive Conveyancing team on a part time basis.Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Secretary will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Secretaries, Administrators and Coordinators to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Secretarial Duties in Birmingham. Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Secretary in Conveyancing:
  • Provide high level support to partners and fee earners working closely with the partner and their team in the Conveyancing department
  • Extensive diary management and organising complex travel arrangements 
  • Assisting partners with the daily secretarial duties such as audio typing
  • Assists the partner in providing them with effective and high quality secretarial support
  • Undertakes all aspects of the role using the most appropriate tools and resources for the task to meet deadlines
  • Demonstrates flexibility and proactively contribute to the team's success by actively seeking to improve working processes
  • Ensures all work is undertaken in the correct priority order
  • Follows team processes and procedures when undertaking tasks
  • Any ad-hoc secretarial admin
Skills Required:
  • Extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary
  • Have a strong working knowledge of iManage and Bighand or similar tools
  • IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Lync - Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams
  • Detailed and strong working knowledge of and high level of proficiency in Elite billing
  • Exemplary document management and filing
  • Excellent telephone manner
  • Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
  • Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
  • Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members
The firm are offering 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, a hybrid working arrangement to suit the candidate and a range of competitive benefits. If you are an experienced Legal Secretary, based in or near Birmingham, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to
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