Legal Secretary

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Legal Secretary to join the Commercial Property team in our Beverley office.

Wilkin Chapman LLP is the largest law firm in Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, providing a wide range of legal services to both businesses and individuals. The Firm achieves regularly department and individual recommendations in the UK's leading legal directories and is ranked 106 in the top 200 UK law firms by turnover. We are an armed forces friendly employer.

The role is offered on a permanent basis to provide support to Partners and Fee Earners in the Commercial Property team, covering all aspects of sale and purchase of commercial property, planning agreements, options, leases, licenses, and issues arising from residential, commercial and industrial development.

Interviews for this position will take place on Tuesday 4 June 2019.

Primarily responsible for the support of Partners and Fee Earners in the Commercial Property department.  Duties will include:

• Proactively manage diaries.
• Assist with account queries.
• Maintain client information spreadsheets/databases.
• Arrange internal and external meetings.
• Answer and make telephone calls.
• Assist with the booking of travel arrangements.
• Create and format documents proficiently.
• Effective prioritisation of tasks.
• Maintain a level of individual knowledge required for the role.
• Effective work with fee earners and secretarial team members across the whole business.
• Handle confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols.
• Producing and amending correspondence, documents, reports, emails, attachments from a variety of sources, in house style in line with the firm’s specific systems/procedures.
• Formatting and amending of documents.
• Effectively managing workloads to ensure all deadlines met.
• Liaising with Team Leader/Fee Earners and Secretaries as appropriate in relation to document production matters and queries. 
• Help and maintain a clean office and clear desk.
• All administrative tasks.

RSA Typing Stage II or equivalent desirable but not essential.

Successful applicants must be able to demonstrate:

• Experience of Commercial Property desirable but not essential
• Proficient in IT systems to include Microsoft Office 2010
• Big Hand transcription
• Understanding and adoption of the Firm’s values and behaviours. 

Interviews for this position will take place on Tuesday 4 June 2019.

Wilkin Chapman is an equal opportunities employer that values diversity and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious practice or any other perceived differences.

Our Values

All that we do is shaped by our five values: Service, Teamwork, Approachability, Innovation and Commitment to achieving results. These values are the bedrock of Wilkin Chapman, they define who and what we are - they underpin everything that we do. For more information on our values, please click here.

If you have any queries regarding this position, please contact recruitment@wilkinchapman.co.uk.