Legal Secretary

at  Kennedys Law

Kennedys is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our team in our Insurance division based in our Belfast office. The successful Legal Secretary will provide an efficient, proactive and comprehensive secretarial service to a busy team of fee earners.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Previous legal secretarial experience
• Fast and accurate touch-typing skills
• Proficient in MS Office packages
• Knowledge of case management systems.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

• where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.

• Thorough diary management arrange meetings and manage changes as and when they arise
• Arrange travel for fee earners and partners both nationally and internationally and process all related expenses
• Report, and assist in resolving, any IT issues for self, fee earners and partners
• Build relationships with clients, including responding to client’s specific requests for information and going the extra mile to assist them
• Assist proactively with billing and credit control queries.
• Creating electronic court bundles including preparing the index
• Gathering/sorting documents for bundle
• Paginating and hyper-linking court bundles
• Submitting court documents via the e-file portal
• Preparing exhibits to witness statements
• Cross referencing witness statements
• Preparation of standard correspondence
• Drafting court forms
• Responding to insolvency practitioners with financial information to assist with preparation of annual reports (the financial information is extracted from elite)