Fillable Printable Job Description Template Email
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Job Description
Job Title: Paralegal/Secretary Location London
Department: Construction Hours of work: Full time
The Role:
Supporting the Construction team based in our London office. The role will require the applicant to provide a
mixture of administration, secretarial and legal support. The applicant will be required to have excellent IT skills.
Main duties and responsibilities:
Providing legal support to include:
- Assisting fee earners generally in responding to correspondence, producing letters, communicating by
phone and email and undertaking tasks on the file – all under supervision;
- Assisting fee earners in transactions;
- Assisting the fee earners in the preparation and checking of documents;
- Carrying out legal research;
Providing administrative support to include:
- Utilising outsourced typing service wherever possible, whilst managing urgent/confidential audio typing;
- Archiving and file reviews;
- Producing documents/letters/emails/memos/power point presentations:
- Taking responsibility for collating correspondence and enclosures;
- Opening client files following firm procedures;
- Responsibility for copying, scanning and faxing required by fee earners, including preparation of large
files, bibles or bundles;
- Being responsible for fee earner diary management/event management;
- Dealing with and managing incoming telephone calls in a professional and efficient manner;
- Responsible for preparing and submitting fee earners' expense claims;
- Managing the billing process from beginning to end on behalf of fee earners;
- Preparing and collating all materials for seminars and presentations;
- Supporting the fee earners in their Business Development activity including pitches, proposals, tenders
and maintaining the Interaction database.
Assist fee earners and Credit Control with client queries regarding outstanding invoices.
Experience:
The successful candidate will have completed the LPC and possess a broad legal understanding.
I
nterpersonal skills
Ability to work proactively and flexibly,
individually and as part of a team.
Well-developed communication skills, both
written and oral
Administrative skills
Strong organisational skills with good
attention to detail.
Conscious of costing issues
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Enthusiastic and approachable
Articulate
Confident
Highly committed
Client focused
Commercial
Works with integrity
Uses initiative
Forward-planner – ability to plan and
document all work via firm’s time recording
system
Meets deadlines
Prioritisation of different projects
Ability to work with minimum supervision and
under pressure
