Job Details

Legal Secretary – Competition

Owen Reed are recruiting for a Legal Secretary to join a top London Law Firm working within the Competition team.  The Legal Secretary will provide an efficient and professional secretarial service to a variety of partners and fee-earners across the group whilst ensuring the provision of an exceptionally high level of service.

Responsibilities of the Legal Secretary may include:
· Proactively managing diaries
· Proactively managing fee-earner inboxes
· Creating, amending and dispatching of bills
· Matter management
· Organising meetings including all ancillary arrangements (e.g. booking meeting rooms, refreshments,
    taxis)
· Organising travel and hospitality arrangements including all ancillary arrangements (e.g. order
    currency, equipment, restaurants, taxis)
· Reconciling and claiming expenses
· Transcribing from dictation (BigHand)
· Creating PowerPoint presentations and Pitch documents
· Creating and amending diagrams in Draw
· Amending and formatting documents
· Copying, printing and scanning
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Requirements
· Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Packages (in particular Word, Excel and PowerPoint).
· Ability to communicate effectively (written, spoken and presentational), working well within a team
· Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, written, spoken and presentational
· Excellent attention to detail and good use of grammar
· A solution focussed mind-set
· Ability to build strong business relationships with internal and external clients and the resilience to deal with demanding individuals
· Confident, proactive individual prepared to take a hands-on approach to managing their workload using their own initiative
· Active listening skills and demonstrate professionalism in all dealings
· Flexible with hours as necessary when the work of the firm requires it
· Comfortable accepting instructions and guidance from different angles
· Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to multi-task, keep calm under pressure and work to tight
    deadlines

For more information please contact Jane Alexander