Employment Secretary(Withers LLP)- career in UK

Job Title: Employment Secretary
Vacancy Type:Secretarial services
Job type:Full-time
Company: Withers
Practice group:Litigation – Employment
Location:London (UK)
Deadline: 26/08/2013
Description:
Our Employment team is looking to appoint an experienced legal secretary. The team advises employers and high-net worth employees on contentious and non-contentious issues and has particular expertise in a range of sectors including financial services, charities, luxury brands and entrepreneurial and owner- managed businesses.

Our secretaries are typically expected to support a partner and several other lawyers and are relied upon to provide a high level service to both internal and external clients. The role will at times be demanding and fast paced so you will need to be an efficient worker who can prioritise, multi-task and remain calm under pressure. You will be responsible for providing a seamless service to the lawyers you support and will be expected to build and maintain relationships with both internal and external clients.

Your duties will include: day to day diary management, making travel arrangements including international travel and hotel bookings, processing expenses, audio script work, opening new client files, updating our client management database, resolving account queries and assisting in the monthly billing process, communicating with legal staff, clients and support staff, and filing (both electronic and hard copy).
The role is a full time position and the usual office hours are 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, although flexibility on these hours will be required from time to time.

Skills and experience required:
We would like to hear from you if you are an experienced legal secretary with at least 1 year’s experience of working within a specialist Employment team. With your CV you should provide a covering letter which shows where you have demonstrated the skills of a first class secretary in line with the role outlined above.

You will also need to demonstrate that you have:

• – A ‘can-do’ attitude
• – The ability to accurately audio and copy type at a speed of at least 60 words per minute
• – The integrity to handle highly confidential information appropriately
• – The ability to communicate effectively and professionally with our clients as and when required
• – Strong organisational skills
• – Strong attention to detail and a team working ethos
• – A good level of proficiency in using IT packages including databases and, ideally, document management systems
• – Excellent written communication with strong grammar, punctuation and spelling and a good level of numeracy

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