Legal Secretary
- Employer
- SaccoMann
- Location
- West Midlands, Birmingham
- Salary
- £18000 - £24000 per annum
- Closing date
- 5 Jul 2019
- Reference
- RMH62008
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- Practice area
- Private client, Tax
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- Not applicable
- Position
- Legal secretary
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
A highly regarded firm, based in Birmingham are seeking a Private Wealth Legal Secretary to join them on a full time, permanent basis.
The role of Legal Secretary will be shared between two Private Wealth teams: the Wills, Trusts and Estate Disputes team and the Tax, Trust and Estates team. You will be working closely with the partners and fee earners across both teams, providing an efficient secretarial and administrative service
General duties as the teams' Legal Secretary will include:
- Arranging meetings, conference and client interviews
- Organising fee earner diaries
- Administrative support to the team
- Liaising with clients face-to-face and over the phone
- Assisting with queries
- Arranging appointments for people to see fee-earners
- Word processing legal correspondence to include court proceedings, minutes and seminar notes
- Production of letters, court documents and attendance notes
- Maintaining files in a good order
The ideal candidate will have great organisation skills and be capable of using their own initiative. The firm are seeking someone who has a flexible approach to work, can adapt well to new challenges and is enthusiastic.
Additional benefits include critical illness cover, pension, discounted legal services, 25 days holiday (with increase with length of service), discounted gym membership and online shopping, as well as season ticket loans.
If you wish to be considered for this great Birmingham based role, then please either simply apply or contact Rachel Hughes at Sacco Mann.
Company
Sacco Mann are specialist Legal Recruiters recognised as regional experts with a genuine interest in, as well as knowledge of, their marketplace. We are renowned for giving clear and straightforward career advice and true quality of service.
We have thirteen experienced consultants focussing on legal recruitment, encompassing the Commercial, General Practice, Public Sector and In House positions, both permanent and locum. In addition two consultants specialise within the Patents and Trademarks sector.
We feel that much of our success has been due to the fact that we:
- try to accurately guage and understand what both candidates and clients require and indeed that which they are able to offer and then bring the two together
- have a demonstrable knowledge of the marketplace. Fundamentally what you need is not merely someone who can post your CV to a practice, but someone whose strength of contacts within the firms can add value, ensuring that you are given proper consideration
- discuss each role with you thoroughly and get prior clearance before a CV is submitted. This is an extremely important for protecting confidentiality and avoiding duplication
- brief you fully prior to any interviews, ensuring that you know what the role entails and how the interview will be run. We also give you honest interview feedback - if you don't do very well in an interview you can always learn from the experience
- are accessible and return your calls
Why use Sacco Mann?
Principally because we believe that the points outlined above are fundamental. We enjoy recruitment, and we are good at it, because we genuinely enjoy assisting people make positive career moves. We don't shuffle paper because we know our marketplace and are therefore in a position to give reliable, knowledgeable and practical advice.
The vast majority of our applicants and clients are at pains to thank us for the advice and service that we provide and we believe the high level of referral business is a direct result of the fact that lawyers value our input.
- Leeds Tel: 0113 245 3338
- Manchester Tel: 0161 831 6890
- Midlands Tel: 0845 241 5644
- London Tel: 203 440 5628
- Website
- https://www.saccomann.com/
- Location
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Vantage Point
Hardman Street
Spinningfields
Manchester
M3 3HF
GB
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