Job Details

LEGAL SECRETARIES REQUIRED

Based in Guildford, Surrey

Salary - Negotiable & dependant on experience

The Company

Formed in 2006, Setfords Solicitors is a multi discipline national law firm operating a fee sharing consultancy model to over 185 lawyers. The firm recently secured £3.75M in external investment to be used to upgrade systems and significantly bolster the existing support teams.

The lawyers are all self employed and are based remotely from their own homes or offices across England and Wales. They generate and carry out the legal aspect of their work and are supported by over 60 employed members of staff across various different admin, secretarial, marketing, accounts and sales teams based out of their Guildford headquarters.

The business model operated means that there is no limit to the number of lawyers that they can and want to bring on board. As the number of lawyers increase, so too does the amount of work that needs to be processed through supporting them. Hence there is an immediate requirement to add to the existing team of Legal Secretaries based in Guildford. There will also be a need to continuously add to this team as the firm continues to grow.

The role

The firm is involved in all areas of law

The role will give the successful candidate exposure to multiple areas of law.

The daily duties will include:

• Opening files on case management system
• Preparing trial bundles and collating other legal documents
• Performing online anti money laundering checks
• Ordering searches for conveyancing matters
• Drafting SDLT forms for conveyancing matters
• Helping post completion department on property matters when required -AP1, OS1 etc.
• Answering any queries and generally helping lawyers
• Answering & dealing with overflow of incoming calls
• Audio typing of legal documents

The Candidate

The successful candidate will either be a qualified Legal Secretary or currently undertaking a Legal Secretary qualification. They will be hard working with a can do attitude.

Experience of working within a law firm would be a bonus but not essential as full training will be provided.