Real Estate Legal Secretary

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment

Job title:

Real Estate Legal Secretary

Company

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment

Job description

West Yorkshire – £26,000 – £30,000Legal Secretary – Property
Leeds
£26,000 – £30,000A fantastic, top 100 established Leeds firm, known to us as a client for many years are keen to add an experienced Legal Secretary to their already impressive Real Estate team.
Based in well-equipped offices in an impressive setting, close to commuter links, the Legal Secretary will benefit from working with a cohesive team of Secretaries, Administrators and Coordinators to deliver a high quality of a full range of Legal Secretarial Duties in Leeds. The role offers an enviable hybrid working option.Duties and responsibilities of the Legal Secretary in Real Estate:

  • Provide high level support to partners and fee earners working closely with the partner and their team in the Real Estate department.
  • Extensive diary management and organising complex travel arrangements for a lot of overseas travel for partners
  • Assisting partners with the daily secretarial duties such as managing bundles
  • Plays an active role in knowledge sharing to ensure growth and development
  • Assists the partner in providing them with effective and high quality secretarial support
  • Undertakes all aspects of the role using the most appropriate tools and resources for the task to meet deadlines
  • Demonstrates flexibility and proactively contribute to the team’s success by actively seeking to improve working processes
  • Ensures all work is undertaken in the correct priority order
  • Communicates with Team Coordinators/Team Leaders to keep them appraised of a task’s status
  • Follows team processes and procedures when undertaking tasks
  • Collaborates with team members on team processes, procedures and solutions – ensuring more junior members of the team understand and adhere to these
  • Actively participates in team meetings

Skills Required:

  • Extensive relevant experience as a Legal Secretary
  • Have a strong working knowledge of iManage and Bighand or similar tools
  • IT literate with high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook), Lync – Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams
  • Detailed and strong working knowledge of and high level of proficiency in Elite billing
  • Exemplary document management and filing
  • Excellent telephone manner
  • Excellent organisation and prioritisation skills
  • Applies knowledge and judgement to solve problems and make decisions
  • Experience of delegating to, and training, junior team members

The firm are offering 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, a hybrid working arrangement to suit the candidate and a range of competitive benefits. If you are an experienced Legal Secretary, based in or near Leeds, please get in touch for confidential consideration or send your CV to [email protected]

Expected salary

£26000 – 30000 per year

Location

West Yorkshire

Job date

Thu, 12 Sep 2024 03:15:57 GMT

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