Legal Secretary/Paralegal

*** Legal Secretary/Paralegal - Family Law ***

Incredible opportunity to join a fantastic firm based in Leicester who specialise in Family related legal matters.

Divorce Proceedings, Separation Agreements, Financial and Property Disputes, Disputes relating to Children, Domestic Abuse/Injunctions

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate that within previous roles they have:

• Assisted fee earners, which may include an element of audio typing, scanning and photocopying;
• Preparing bundles/documents as instructed by the fee earner;
• Answering and making telephone calls/sending emails to progress cases;
• Filing online applications with the Court;
• General admin/office duties which may include dealing with improvements/problems that may arise with IT/Case Management System;
• Opening files;
• Closing files (which may mean a lot of scanning initially until we transfer totally to paper lite);
• Dealing with the post and taking it to a postbox towards the end of the working day;

Any other reasonable duties that relate to the everyday running of the business.

The ideal candidate will also hold a professional secretarial qualification or an A level/Cilex in law.

We look forward to receiving your applications