We are recruiting for a Legal Secretary to join our Employment team in Manchester.
Your Role
As a Legal Secretary, your day-to-day remit includes:
* Supporting the team by carrying out all secretarial tasks and help, when necessary, with all administrative tasks.
* Assisting the fee earners with financial management e.g. disbursements, client balances, arranging payments, dealing with a range of client specific billing requirements.
* Creating monthly invoices to be issued to the clients.
* Diary management for all fee earners; arranging internal and external appointments and, making arrangements for meetings; booking meetings rooms or external venues as required.
* Making and receiving telephone calls that will involve dealing with team queries which will include confidential and sensitive information.
* Drafting correspondence, proof reading, amending and house styling documents including non TLT documents.
Your Skills and Experience
* Previous Legal Secretary experience is required
* Extensive experience in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel are required
* Experience in case management systems
* Exceptional prioritising/organisational skills
* Strong ability to self-manage a large workload in a busy team
* Confident in delegation of work when necessary
Your Team
TLT’s Employment team is recognised as a ‘National Leader’ (Band 1) by the leading directory of law firms, Chambers and Partners 2022.
Our team of more than 30 specialists advises clients across the three UK legal jurisdictions of England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland on all aspects of employment law. Our services include business reorganisations and redundancies, tactical advice on sensitive/ reputational issues, practical support on business as usual issues such as grievance, boardroom support on reputational or corporate governance issues, employment tribunal representation, internal investigations, advice on employee consultation and engagement, business immigration, employment law training and specialist expertise on TUPE and outsourcing.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,800 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. Over the last few years TLT’s successful growth, delivery of high-quality work and support for colleagues has been consistently recognised by The Times and at the Legal Business, The Lawyer and British Legal Awards.
Our ambition is to create opportunities for what comes next for our clients, recognised as their 1st tier adviser and being valued for our values. We do this in our unique way by creating social value and a dynamic environment where our people are curious, creative and ambitious for their success.
In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute to the success of TLT.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.