Dispute Resolution/Litigation Legal Secretary

Do you have strong litigation/dispute resolution legal secretarial experience?

Are you extremely organised and accurate, with experience of dealing with the courts  as well as clients?

Are you able able to prepare court bundles and have the ability to pick up case management systems quickly as well as being confident at billing?

Are you able to commute to Camberley, Surrey?

Excellent opportunity for the right candidate to work within a leading law firm which is growing!

This role provides sole secretarial and administrative support to a team of 6-8 fee earners within the dispute resolution team ensuring the team can focus on the legal work and providing an efficient and friendly service to their clients.

 Job Spec

• First point of contact for new client enquiries,- obtaining relevant information, assessing the matter, and referring work to relevant fee earner
• Diary management – appointment and meeting room bookings, team meetings, key dates/deadlines etc
• File administration – file opening including all aspects of anti money laundering compliance, file maintenance, file closures etc
• Civil litigation processes and procedures – including online filing and preparing trial bundles etc
• Secretarial work – including digital dictation, working with precedent letters etc
• Systems and procedure use and compliance – maintaining an up to date knowledge of Firm and Department systems and procedures, adhering to Firm guidelines in course of own work and assisting other members of the team with systems and procedures
• Billing and accounts administration – producing and issuing bills and statements of account, collating anticipated monthly fee income, liaising with fee earner and clients re: money on account, liaising with accounts team etc
• Business development administration – logging and analysing enquiries, conversion rates and sources of work etc

 Car owner preferred and ideal locations are Camberley, Ash Vale, Farnborough, Bracknell, Sandhurst, Yateley etc