Job Details

Ref: SEC/CN/SC/MAR17

Leigh Day is urgently seeking a Legal Secretary, to assist a Partner and the team within our Clinical Negligence department. The successful applicant will hold a responsible position providing secretarial and litigation support to the Partner.

Leigh Day is a specialist law firm operating across clinical negligence, personal injury, product liability, human rights, international, employment and discrimination. We are a leading firm of clinical negligence law specialists and consistently ranked by legal directories as national leaders in this field of personal injury work. We act for patients who bring clinical negligence compensation claims because of sub-standard medical care and hospital accidents.  Leigh Day’s clinical negligence team has over thirty qualified lawyers, with more than three hundred years’ combined experience. If you want to learn more about Leigh Day’s Clinical Negligence Department please visit our website.

The role involves typing documents (digital and copy), filing, managing diaries, arranging meetings and conferences, liaising with clients, experts, counsel and other solicitors, preparing and checking bundles and dealing with other general administrative tasks.

The successful applicant will be reliable, organised and have fast and accurate typing skills together with excellent administrative skills. The ideal candidate will be computer literate with up-to-date word and excel skills, together with good standard of spoken and written English. Candidates should be able to show initiative and have a positive “can do” attitude. Strong organisational and communication skills are required, together with relevant legal and secretarial experience. Candidates should be able to deal with clients in a sympathetic and compassionate manner and demonstrate a commitment to doing so.

To download the job description, please visit our website.

Contract:                             Permanent

Location:                             London

Salary:                                Competitive

Closing Date:                      9 April 2017 (Sunday)

To find out more about this opportunity and application details have a look at our website: http://www.leighday.co.uk/Careers/Professional-support to find out more about this opportunity.

To apply, please return the following documents to jobs@leighday.co.uk by 9 April 2017 (Sunday).

• A covering letter clearly stating a) why you are interested in this role, b) how your experience and skills match the role requirements, c) your current salary details and d) applicable current notice period.

• A copy of your up-to-date CV.

• The completed application form and Equality and Diversity form (downloadable from our website).

Unfortunately failure to return all the above requested documents will result in your application not being considered.

Leigh Day is committed to equality and diversity and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. A copy of the Equality and Diversity Policy is available upon request.