Job Title: Legal Secretary
Reports to: Practice Manager
Job Purpose: To support the Practice in the provision of high quality, professional legal services by performing competent and efficient secretarial duties.
Key Responsibilities:
* To support the Solicitor in the management of secretarial workload, ensuring that the priorities of the department are met.
* To support the Solicitor by typing dictated work as directed.
* To assist the Solicitor in the management of caseloads by dealing with file related queries either face to face or by telephone.
* To ensure that clients are dealt with efficiently and politely.
* To answer telephone calls efficiently and politely and take messages, as necessary.
* To ensure that all internal methods, systems, policies, and procedures are adhered to.
* To manage own work allocation, productivity, and quality of work with minimum supervision.
* Any other duties which could reasonably be expected to be required from time to time.
* Duties include but not limited to - Dictation and Will typing, Grant of Probate applications to HMCTS, LPA applications to Office of Public Guardian, diary management, HMRC form submissions.
Personal Qualities:
1. Self-motivated and able to organise own work with minimum supervision.
2. Cope effectively in demanding circum...