Legal Secretary
Huddersfield
Job Title: Legal Secretary
Reports to: Practice Manager
Job Purpose: To support the Practice in the provision of high quality, professional legal services by performing competent and efficient secretarial duties.
Key Responsibilities:
To support the Solicitor in the management of secretarial workload, ensuring that the priorities of the department are met.
To support the Solicitor by typing dictated work as directed.
To assist the Solicitor in the management of caseloads by dealing with file related queries either face to face or by telephone.
To ensure that clients are dealt with efficiently and politely.
To answer telephone calls efficiently and politely and take messages, as necessary.
To ensure that all internal methods, systems, policies, and procedures are adhered to.
To manage own work allocation, productivity, and quality of work with minimum supervision.
Any other duties which could reasonably be expected to be required from time to time.
Duties include but not limited to - Dictation and Will typing, Grant of Probate applications to HMCTS, LPA applications to Office of Public Guardian, diary management, HMRC form submissions.
Personal Qualities:
Self-motivated and able to organise own work with minimum supervision.
Cope effectively in demanding circumstances.
Good time management, adopting a flexible approach to work.
Deliver work output to the required standard.
Pay attention to detail and quality of work.
Operates effectively as part of a team.
This role is full time 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday, working in a very busy Probate department working to strict deadlines.