legal secretary Sheffield, England
Job description
Eventus Legal are seeking a Family Secretary / Legal Assistant to join a successful law firm based in Sheffield. This is a permanent, full-time role based in an award winning privately funded family team. Benefits include a generous holiday allowance, continuous training, development, and progression opportunities.
Role Responsibilities
The incoming experienced Family Secretary / Legal Assistant will assist a Salaried Partner on matters including complex matrimonial / finance and children files. You will be responsible for typing the dictation, filing, speaking with clients in person or on the telephone to provide updates. You will be responsible for completing complex ES2 forms, Form Es on instruction, preparing court bundles and any other Ad Hoc tasks.
Person Specification
The incoming Family Secretary / Legal Assistant will have experience in dealing with a full range of privately funded family matters.
Importantly, you will also be able to display:
- Experience of working in a family law department.
- Good interpersonal and organisational skills.
- Results driven, be highly adaptable and flexible, work comfortably in a fast paced and dynamic legal environment.
- Ability to organise and prioritise your workload within the required timescales.
- Proactive, work under pressure and possess high level of attention to detail.
- Excellent PC / keyboard skills.
- Team Player.
- Excellent time management skills.
- Understanding of the need to deal with clients matters sensitively and confidentially.
Benefits and Rewards
This is an exciting opportunity to join an established Law Firm. The role is based in the law firm’s Sheffield office in South Yorkshire and you would be working directly with one of the firms Salaried Partners.
Other benefits include:
- 38 days’ inclusive of bank and other public holidays
- 3% employer pension contribution on whole salary
- Life Assurance scheme at 3x annual salary
- Continuous training and development opportunities
- Generous employee sickness allowance of 6 weeks
- Client and employee referral schemes (up to £2000)
- 25% discount on some legal services
About the Company
This is a highly successful law firm in Sheffield recognised by the Legal 500 as a leading firm. The firm have delivered legal services for over 260 years. They are proud to have been recognised as a law firm of quality and experience through the award of the Legal Aid Agency's Specialist Quality Mark, the Law Society's Lexcel Quality Standard, and the Law Society's Conveyancing Quality Scheme accreditation.
Next Steps
If you are interested in learning more about this Family Secretary / Legal Assistant job, apply now to send your CV to the Eventus Recruitment Group via email.
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact me at the details above for a confidential discussion on your career.
The Eventus Recruitment Group are award-winning recruitment specialists operating in the Legal, HR, Finance and Accountancy sectors across the UK. Please note, the years’ experience and / or salary are listed in our advertisements as a guide. We are happy to consider applications from all candidates who can demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role. As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances. Our privacy policy can be found on the bottom of our website.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £14,005.74-£25,582.11 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programme
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
Schedule:
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends
Supplemental pay types:
- Yearly bonus
Work Location: In person
Reference ID: 2664
