Our client has a broad-based corporate practice, advising a wide corporate and institutional client base. Its main areas of focus in the UK and internationally are mergers and acquisitions, IPO’s, corporate organisations, private equity transactions and joint ventures. With over 200 specialist lawyers, including over 80 partners, they are a significant force.

Interested? They are currently recruiting for a Legal Secretary in the Corporate Department. The role is to work for two partners and an assistant.

Previous Legal Secretarial experience is ESSENTIAL, ideally within Corporate or Financial Services.

Key responsibilities:

• Attend morning meeting to discuss meetings for the day and what papers are required.
• Discuss arrangements for the next day’s meetings.
• Remind about any big meetings at least two weeks in advance and assist in their preparation.
• When arranging meetings, check and recheck that people have accepted and confirm a day in advance.
• Audio/copy typing of correspondence.
• Check phone every two hours and ¬type up messages in full when the Partner is out of the office.
• Be pro-active in opening files (physical and electronic)
• Daily filing
• Know the whereabouts of every file that is being worked on
• Organise electronic filing.
• Note down twice a day appointments people are trying to make and discuss these with the Partner either once or twice a day and then once accepted ring the organiser to ask if there is an agenda that should be worked through.
• Assisting/supporting other team members at busy times.

The successful candidate for this role must have the following skills and experience:

• The ideal candidate MUST have previous Legal Secretarial experience, ideally gained within corporate or financial services.
• Professional approach to work
• Audio typing or word processing and MS Office skills are essential
• Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
• Flexibility and the ability to use own initiative
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Require minimum supervision
• High level of IT knowledge and ideally 70wpm+
• "Can do" approach and be flexible over working hours.

If you have the relevant experience for this role and can work in the UK on a permanent basis, please forward your CV immediately to tricha@australasian.co.uk.

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