Legal Secretary

Weightmans is a Top 45 law firm with offices throughout the UK. Having been recognised as the leading legal employer at the annual Britain's Top Employers awards and achieved record rankings in Chambers UK 2017, we are immensely proud of the work we carry out for our clients and the culture we provide to our people.

A central support team based in the Liverpool office.  We offer a remote support service and can help with the following (list not exhaustive):

Remote typing service, reports, letters/faxes, instructions to counsel (without enclosures), attendance notes, memos, court forms/pleadings, chronologies, action plans, statements, authorities, copy typing, transcribing emails, re-formatting documents into corporate standards, cheque requests, powerpoints

To provide a high quality service to fee earners across the firm on tasks including:

• Document production and formatting

• Administration support

• PowerPoint presentation slides

• Excel Spreadsheets

• Central PA support services including but not limited to travel bookings, diary management, expenses via Fraedom and minute taking

• Support with adhoc requests arising as a result of client requirements. This could include file opening, archiving, billing etc.

The Legal Secretary will be required to:

• Become expert users in Microsoft Packages (Excel, Word and PowerPoint). Training will be provided where necessary

• Complete document production requests in line with Corporate Standards

• Ensure all transcribed documents are produced according to Corporate Standards and House Style

• Meet weekly targets and dictation turnaround targets

• Work in accordance with team and client SLAs

• Manage the service the team provides in accordance with SLA

This list is not intended to be exhaustive and you will be expected to perform other duties that fall within the remit of the role. These may include other duties that occur within the Facilities department such as telephony.

• Experienced legal secretary

• Excellent secretarial skills

• Excellent Attention to detail

• Excellent punctuation and grammar skills

• Excellent IT skills

• Typing accuracy of 95% or above required

• Minimum of typing speed of 60 words per minute

Please note:

• Any reference to experience or PQE in our adverts or job descriptions is to be used as a guideline only. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and with different levels of experience who can demonstrate that they fulfil the requirements of the role.

• The successful candidate appointed to this role will be subject to our standard background checking process, and any offer of employment made is conditional upon successful completion of those checks. Further details can be obtained from the Recruitment team.