We are working with a leading specialist law firm in their search for a Legal Secretarial Team Leader. Alongside some secretarial duties, the role will be responsible for managing a team of secretaries who support a busy team of fee earners. You will: mentor and coach the team monitor workloads and allocate work accordingly be the first point of contact for fee earners for any team absences check-in with fee earners to discuss feedback and relay this to the individual secretaries conduct 1-1s, appraisals, and reviews with team members attend weekly TL meetings deliver daily feedback to the team ensure new team members are successfully integrated and trained monitor any conduct or performance issues and handle according to the firm's HR policies identify a deputy for each period of TL absence provide support with other activities like ongoing projects be involved in recruiting new secretaries be involved in the salary review process You should have senior secretarial background, ideally within dispute resolution and be able to demonstrate an excellent track record leading a secretarial team.