Legal Secretary/assistant

3 weeks ago


Newcastle, Australia Verve Partners Full time

Profressional and friendly work environment
- Busy practice with a supportive team
- Attractive remuneration commensurate to experience

**Our Client**

Our client is an established mid-sized firm providing dedicated legal services to clients across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. A professional team of skilled solicitors working across a range of practice areas including family law, property and wills and estates. They foster a supportive and professional workplace culture and value work life balance.
**The position**

This is an opportunity to provide legal administration support to an experienced, collaborative team across mixed practice areas. Your primary duties may include:

- Assisting Solicitors with running of client flies, including opening new matters, maintaining accurate client records, keeping physical and electronic files organised and up to date, managing client enquiries.
- Typing dictation.
- Filing Court Documents in the online portal.
- Collating and organising documents.
- Assisting Solicitors with drafting professional and accurate Court documents.
- Diary management.
- Client billing.

**About you**
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills.
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft suite.
- Some previous experience as a legal secretary essential and experience in conveyancing will be highly regarded.

**Benefits**

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced legal secretary to work in a supportive team or developing legal secretary to continue to build their skills. You will be working within a warm and professional environment who value work life balance. In addition you will enjoy:

- Lots of training and development opportunities.
- Well-managed firm that values employees.
- Supportive and friendly work environment with some flexibility.
- Convenient location with plenty of parking.
- Verve Partners is an energetic team of specialist consultants reimagining recruitment Australia-wide. With over 170 years of combined experience, we’ve found the sweet spot in talent search - and want to share it. By scouting smart, digging deep and embracing diversity, we grow vibrant careers, cultures and communities. We currently have offices in the lifestyle cities of Newcastle and Wollongong._
- We acknowledge and pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and live. We pay our respects to the First Peoples of this country, their culture and Elders past, present and emerging. We recognise that this land was and always will be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land because sovereignty was never ceded._


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