Legal Secretary - Coburns Recruitment

Description

My client is currently looking to recruit an experienced legal secretary to join their well established Macclesfield based law firm. Previous legal secretarial experience is needed preferably within Personal Injury. Working within a friendly team of legal secretaries and fee earners the successful candidate will be a good team player and have experience of digital dictation and case management.

Job Spec:

- Filing on a daily basis

- Folding / sorting post for the team

- chasing costs (twice weekly)

- To be the first point of call for all telephone calls received from reception  (deal with any calls if possible to prevent the solicitor/assistants having to call back, if not able to deal with the query the call can be put through to the relevant team member or a message taken)

- Typing (for Solicitors and assistants)

- Chasing general tasks for all team members

- New process files / uploading documents onto the portal

- Archiving (once weekly)

- Dealing with requests from claim care for reports re possibly diminution claims

- Preparing/copying trial bundles/instructions to counsel

- Manually count up telephone calls/letters for solicitor in preparation to cost the file

- Preparing files to send to cost draftsman

- Any emails coming into the solicitor will be forwarded to the secretary in order for them to be dropped into proclaim and printed and filed accordingly

- Any other general tasks to assist the solicitor and team members