Relief Secretary

Thomson Geer is a large Australian Corporate law firm with offices in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth. The firm has 650 partners and staff nationally, and offers a dynamic, friendly and professional work environment. We are passionate about constantly providing value to our clients - their business success is our priority. This focus on client value is a key reason for our success.

**The Role**

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic experienced full-time legal secretary to join our Adelaide team. The role involves working as relief support across all of our commercial practice areas, working on a variety of tasks including;
- Providing secretarial cover to varied teams
- Liaising with clients and staff
- Preparation of legal documents
- Monthly billing
- Managing all electronic documentation
- Diary management
- Opening, maintaining and closing matter files
- Reception cover and support for other corporate services functions as required
- Meeting room and event set up, including organising catering, managing room bookings, stock ordering and ensuring technology needs are met
- Administrative support
- Photocopying, scanning and other tasks, such as binding and collating documents.

**Requirements of the role**
- Be flexible and adaptable, proactive and able to work unsupervised
- Have a positive attitude and the ability to manage the workflow of multiple fee earners
- Have intermediate-advanced computer skills across the Microsoft suite in particular Word and Powerpoint, working knowledge of Excel, and a typing speed of 60+ wpm
- Have strong verbal and written communication skills
- Have experience using document management and billing/time recording systems (such as FileSite, Expert or similar)
- Have a minimum of two years' experience as a Legal Secretary
- Have strong organisational and file management skills and demonstrate initiative.

**What we offer**: