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Jazz Personnel
Do you enjoy the vibrancy of working in a cosmopolitan city?
Are you an experienced Legal secretary/PA looking to take the next step in your legal career? If so, this could be the move for you!
Working with a prestigious Legal 500 firm, Jazz Personnel have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Commercial Litigation Legal Secretary/PA to support the Managing Partner of an ever growing, innovative, top city law firm.
Job Summary;
- Providing secretarial support to those required, including preparing correspondence and documents through fast and accurate audio-typing and word processing. Confidently working through your work load using your own initiative.
- Providing full personal assistance support to the Managing Partner, ensuring complete confidentiality with both external and internal matters.
- Administering both manual and electronic filing daily.
- Opening, maintaining and closing files at both Client and Matter level.
- Closing, storing and retrieving client files.
- Preparing mail and enclosures for dispatch.
- Making appointments and arranging meetings; including liaising with reception staff to organise facilities such as rooms and refreshments, and maintaining an up-to-date diary for the partners.
- Attending clients, both in person and on the telephone, and providing such support in a professional and friendly manner in-keeping with the Firm's standards for client care.
- Undertaking any specific training when required by the Firm and to have overall responsibility towards self-development.
- Ensuring the confidentiality of all the Firm's and the Firm's client's information and documentation.
- Contributing to the Firm's overall business objectives by offering support to other departments when appropriate.
- On occasion work such hours outside normal hours of employment as the Firm considers necessary to meet the needs of the business.
Required qualifications, skills and experience;
- Experience of working in a legal environment along with relevant departmental experience is desirable.
- Previous legal personal assistance experience.
- Fast and accurate audio and copy typing skills, including digital dictation and integrated legal software systems.
- Excellent English grammar/spelling; familiarity with legal terminology and numerical skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including experience in dealing with a range of clients via telephone and face-to-face.
- Ability to organise and prioritise your workload to the required standard and within the required timescales.
- Previous diary management experience is essential.
If you feel you are suited to this fantastic opportunity, do not miss out, apply now!
Jazz Personnel is an innovative, legal business support recruitment consultancy with an emphasis on quality of opportunity for candidates and excellence in our offer to clients.
With offices in the North East & South East, we listen and learn from our clients and candidates in order to continually develop and enhance our service delivery, responding to their needs. This commitment together with a relentless work ethic will ensure a progressive quality service which encompasses all of our work.
Integrity is vital to our operations and our services are open, transparent, detailed and designed to deliver an excellent customer experience with exceptional results.
Our passion is for delivering excellence in recruitment outcomes.
The go-to resource for legal business support talent in the UK.
We specialise in matching the best legal secretarial and business support staff with leading law firms across the country. People are a business’ most important asset, which is why we work closely with all of our candidates and clients to ensure a perfect fit.
Innovative
When it comes to business technology, we’re at the forefront of innovation, making our recruitment process simple, effective and streamlined. For this reason, we continue to invest in the latest recruitment software on the market, together with leading candidate sourcing, job posting and applicant tracking software. We also reach out and engage with our candidates, clients and followers on social media channels.
Knowledgeable
We share the latest news from the legal sector on our blog and social media, enabling candidates and clients to remain up-to-date with important developments and trends. Our consultants are some of the most experienced in the business, and always make informed decisions when it comes to placing people in workplaces.
Aspirational
As a fast-growing consultancy, we know a thing or two about ambition. We began our journey in 2016 with a clear vision; to provide a truly bespoke and personal service to our candidates and clients. Since then, we’ve worked tirelessly to build lasting relationships with law firms and to help further the careers of our candidates. Our reputation has enabled us to develop from a regional to a UK-wide recruitment agency.
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