# Legal Secretary

**Company**: Employment team in Bristol
**Location**: Bristol
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Legal

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## Description

We are seeking a Legal Secretary to join our Employment team in Bristol. As a Legal Secretary, you will provide a high-quality and efficient secretarial service to a Partner, fee-earners, and trainee solicitor.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Prepare, amend, and format legal correspondence, agreements, court forms, and other documentation, including Tribunal bundles

- Manage diaries and emails for Partners and fee earners

- Organise meetings, calls, travel arrangements, and process fee earner expenses

- Liaise with courts and other third parties

- Open new matters, draft retainer letters, and monitor progress of letters being signed by partners, issued to, and approved by clients

- Manage Key Dates Tracker in relation to important dates and liaise with the legal tech team

- Prepare finance reports for fee earners ahead of billing, assist with managing billing for specific clients, and liaise with clients for approval to bill

- Manage workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room, and other support teams as required, proactively ensuring work is returned within the required timescales

- Liaise with Business Development, Marketing, Events, and Finance teams to support specific team-based tasks

- Work to strict deadlines and manage priorities effectively

- Establish positive and effective working relationships with colleagues at all levels

- Provide cross-Practice Group support where necessary

- Assist with the preparation of pitch documentation, with a particular focus on creating and formatting presentations in Powerpoint

- Manage HighQ sites, monitor document uploads, and keep site records up to date

- Issue settlement agreements by DocuSign, monitor signing, and provide updates on progress

**Requirements:**

- Adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach

- Demonstrate high levels of client care, organisational, and time management skills

- Experience within another law firm demonstrating a proactive and enthusiastic approach with high levels of IT literacy, superb attention to detail, and the ability to learn new systems quickly

**Benefits:**

- Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)

- Flexible, hybrid working policy

- Generous bonus scheme

- Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)

- Holiday exchange scheme

- Private medical insurance

- Enhanced parental leave

- Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010

## Skills

### Required
- legal correspondence
- documentation preparation
- diary management
- email management
- meeting organisation
- travel arrangement
- expense processing
- court liaison
- document management
- finance reporting
- billing management
- client communication
- workflow management
- team collaboration
- presentation creation
- site management
- settlement agreement issuance

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