Term: Permanent
Full-time
Owen Reed is looking to recruit a Legal Secretary for a top law firm in Kent.
Our vibrant, energetic Corporate team boasts some of the best lawyers in the region specialising in all aspects of corporate law covering a wide variety of corporate transactions including M&A, private equity, reorganisations, company restructures and general corporate governance matters.
The team currently comprises over 60 specialist qualified corporate law solicitors, including 15 partners, making us one of the largest Corporate teams in the East of England.
Proof read all work, checking for spelling and grammar;
Understands a variety of software packages such as Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel, to produce correspondence, documents and ensure relevant documentation is produced to a high standard to meet clients’ and fee earners’ expectations and deadlines;
Manage diaries of allocated fee earners in Microsoft Outlook;
Dealing with client and file inception through our firms client matter management database and software
Accurately maintain and update client and other relevant contact details on our client database including AML requirements and other client on-boarding information;
Manage and maintain on behalf of allocated fee earners our client relationship management data base;
Respond to internal and external telephone enquiries professionally;
Provide financial administrative support ensuring compliance with legal, firm wide and practice group specific policies and procedures;
Carry out photocopying and scanning in accordance with the firm’s paper-lite and clear desk policies;
Ability to communicate with a wide variety of different people from privately owned businesses to private equity and venture capital organisations;
Assist in maintaining compliant and accurate file management and office systems;
Methodical approach to work and management of fee earners and team projects;
~ 50+ wpm typing speed;
~ Solid understanding of key IT packages to include Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel;
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