Legal Secretary

Supportive, professional environment
- Work with great team of family law specialists
- Attractive remuneration commensurate with experience

**Legal Secretary**
- Supportive, professional environment
- Work with great team of family law specialists
- Attractive remuneration commensurate with experience

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**About the Organisation**

Our client, Turnbull Hill Lawyers, is a mid-tier regional law firm that provides legal services to the people and businesses of the Hunter region and across New South Wales. Turnbull Hill’s dedicated lawyers and support staff have the knowledge and experience to offer expert assistance, while also providing personal attention to the firm’s clients. The firm understands that its future success is underpinned by the contribution, commitment and talent of its employees. They foster a high performing, professional workplace culture, and provide support for ongoing professional development and long-term career opportunities.

**The position**

This is an opportunity to provide legal administration support to an experienced, collaborative and friendly family law team. You will primarily support 1-2 solicitors, with key duties including:

- 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.
- Preparing Briefs & Chronologies.
- Collating and organising discovery documents.
- Assisting Solicitors with drafting professional and accurate Court documents.
- Diary management.
- Client billing.

You may have previous experience as a legal secretary, or you may be looking to enter the legal industry and utilise your administration skills from different industries. Either way, you will be given excellent on-boarding and ongoing training to ensure you succeed in the role.

This is a full-time position and will be based at Turnbull Hill’s Charlestown office.

**About you**
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent organisation and time management skills.
- Intermediate skills in Microsoft suite.
- Previous legal experience, particularly in Family Law will be highly regarded but is not essential.

**Why this role?**

If you are looking to develop a long-term career as a legal support professional, opportunities don’t get better than this. You will be working with one of Newcastle’s most respected firms, and be supported with ongoing training and development. Due to their size, lots of opportunities for long term career growth exist.
- Opportunity to join a leading law firm.
- Annual performance/salary reviews.
- Lots of training and development opportunities.
- Well-managed firm that values employees.
- Supportive environment, where work/life balance exists
- Friendly work environment with regular social activities

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.