Family Legal Secreyary, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Looking for an experienced Family Legal Secretary to join one of the top North East Newcastle based Law Firms to assist within a busy Family department. 

Main Responsibilities:

• Processing expenses
• Inbox management
• Supporting bundling – indices, front sheets etc
• Assisting with billing and producing bill letters
• Filing and archiving
• Extensive diary management, booking internal and external meetings, watching out for any clashes
• Liaising with the Post Room and Reprographics department
• Typing
• Providing full administrative and secretarial support and assistance
• Word processing including preparing correspondence via email and letter and court documents
• Using MS Office suite (Word, Excel and Outlook) and case management system
• To prepare the Conference Room for meetings as necessary and for the tidying and clearance of the room at the end of the meeting
• To prepare mail and enclosures

Requirements:

• Experience of providing a polished secretarial service and administrative support to an extremely busy team of allocated fee earners
• Provide assistance to partners and fee earners during the absence of other secretaries in the team, as and when required
• Confident at building excellent external and internal relationships, including with clients, business contacts and the wider partnership
• A sense of pride in the role of being a personal assistant and a desire to add value
• Excellent and pleasant communication skills together with emotional intelligence

Opportunity to work within one of the top North East Law Firms in an excellent office environement with a great team.