Legal secretary
• Experienced Legal Secretary, come and support the team! • Great team, interesting work, • Caulfield South, work close to home!
Summary about this job
Legal Secretaries
Company: Rickards Legal
Location: Melbourne
Work type: Part Time
Salary: n\a
Phone: +61-2-8910-1140
Fax: +61-3-5371-2192
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Detail information about job Legal secretary. Terms and conditions vacancy
Now is the time to join this well established and successful legal practice and work close to home! An opportunity exists for a professional and motivated legal secretary to join the firm and provide support to the close knit and busy team.
The person we are looking for will have a can do attitude, will be very organised, and will be a great information source and help to the team. Everyone is important to this practice, but with your support to the legal practitioners, you will be a key contributor in the success of the firm!
Responsibilities are varied with a focus on the following:
- Support in the preparation and drafting of legal documents
- Preparing briefs, dicta typing
- Typing letters, emails, general filing
- Liaising with clients as required
- Liaising with courts, barristers, other law firms on day to day matters
- General administration support, file management
This role requires the following experience, personal attributes and skills:
- Experience as a Legal Secretary essential
- Litigation secretarial assistance experience ideal
- Sound understanding of Court procedures
- File and document management
- Diary management, billing and reporting
- Energetic and professional style
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office - Word is essential, with a typing speed of 60 WPM +
- Advanced skills in LEAP legal software essential.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, being able to communicate easily with people in all different roles
- Ability to work autonomously
- Proven ability to think ahead and be proactive in your support, delivering what is required before being asked
- Comfortable working in a small office which is pretty relaxed, yet requires you to meet tight deadlines and be super organised
- Flexible, yet with great attention to detail
- High level of integrity and honesty
- A passion for making life easier for the team you support
Our commitment to you is to offer a position that is varied, where you can grow your skills. The work environment is friendly, fast paced and fun, a place where you can make a difference! Remuneration will be negotiated based on skills and experience.
Flexible working hours.
If this sounds like you, please apply below and impress us when we call you!