Float Legal Secretary

Our client is seeking an experienced legal secretary to join their busy four-person secretarial team in London, in a floating capacity.

You will primarily be supporting the Commercial Litigation fee-earners but you will also be required on occasion to help cover Corporate, Commercial Property and possibly elsewhere across our fee-earning areas.

You will work on a wide range of client-focussed secretarial and administrative tasks, assisting fully with all non-fee-earning work, including monthly billing and file management.

Person Specification

You will have extensive experience as a litigation-focussed legal secretary in a similar size and type of legal environment:

• Good commercial awareness and understanding of how the secretarial role contributes to the overall success of the business;
• Previous experience of legal billing and accounts, of managing a variety of client-focussed accounts activities and a good standard of numeracy;
• Excellent IT skills, fast, accurate audio/copy typing & sound knowledge of the Microsoft Office suite;
• Good written and spoken English and excellent interpersonal skills
• Proactive and responsible team skills;
• Strong administrative and organisational skills & knowledge of office procedures/equipment;
• A flexible and adaptable approach, willingness to develop and to meet changing business needs;
• Professional demeanour, self-confidence and credibility.

Salary is at market rate and we offer 25 days holiday a year (plus Bank Holidays) and a company pension scheme.