Role profile
Our Business Support Team has an exciting opportunity for a Legal Secretary to join their team on a 6 month fixed term contract. This role is based in our central Bristol office owing to the nature of the role and the service provided to the firm.
You’ll play a key role as part of the team in providing high-level administrative support across our 3 UK offices. Working closely with colleagues across Osborne Clarke, you will be building strong internal relationships while using your excellent IT skills, attention to detail and calm, organised approach to help us deliver a first-class service to our lawyers and clients.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide centrally based cover for our legal teams
* Provide effective high level administrative support to the legal teams and business services
* Knowledgeable of working practices within each Practice Group
* Deal with enquiries from colleagues and provide effective transfer of information
* Audio/copy typing
* Amend and format legal documentation and initiate/compose direct correspondence
* Understand and apply house style effectively to an expert level of proficiency
* Provide Billing and credit control procedures for lawyers and clients
* Supports the production of Business Development and marketing documents
* Involvement in ad-hoc projects as given by the Business Support Manager
* Work to continuously develop effective ways of working within the team and to identify ways of improving working practices
We are looking for
We are looking for an experienced Legal Secretary or someone who has worked in a similar role. Youll be able to demonstrate excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to build an internal network across OC offices, departments and teams.
Other key skills required to be successful in this role include:
* Experience of digital dictation and audio typing
* Ability to touch type
* Experience of being able to work with a workflow management tool
* Ability to work under pressure with little supervision
* Excellent attention to detail
* Self-motivated and proactive
* Calm and collected manner to instil confidence in clients and colleagues
* Essential to be organised and be able to prioritise work
* Excellent IT skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, Workshare, PowerPoint, Interaction etc)
Salary and benefits
We offer competitive salaries and generous benefits. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.
Our recruitment process
Please note that although we include closing dates for our roles as a guide, we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.
We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.
About Us
Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, its fundamental to our success.
At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality.
Services in India are provided by a relationship firm
J-18808-Ljbffr