Eventus Legal are seeking a Legal Administrator to join a highly successful Commercial Property team in Stockton-on-Tees. This is a permanent job that can be worked on a full-time or part-time basis (minimum 3 days per week). The successful Legal Administrator will be rewarded with great benefits including 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, free parking, hybrid working (1-2 days remote per week) and flexi-time hours.
Role responsibilities
The incoming Legal Administrator will be providing secretarial and administrative support to multiple fee-earners within the award-winning Commercial Property team. Your day-to-day duties within this job will include:
- Opening and maintaining files on our practice management system
- Obtaining ID, conducting AML searches, media checks and conflict searches
- Typing audio dictation for one or more solicitors
- Ordering property searches
- Preparing invoices and documentation relevant to client matters
- Liaising with clients and other law firms
- General office duties
Person specification
Applications are sought from experienced Legal Secretaries or Administrators with prior experience in a legal role, those with experience in Commercial or Residential Property will be prioritised. You will also:
- Have excellent IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel and database systems
- Be highly organised and hard working
- Have great communication skills and be able to work well in a team
- Be able to pick up new skills and systems easily
- Have strong initiative skills and a “can-do” approach
- Have a keen eye for detail and be able to complete tasks with a high level of accuracy
- Have a professional and confident telephone manner
Benefits and Rewards
The successful Legal Administrator will be joining an incredibly supportive and successful full-service law firm located in modern offices in Stockon-on-Tees.
They are offering a generous salary (negotiable depending on experience) and host of other benefits including:
- Flexibility over hours including full or part-time (minimum 3 days per week) and flexi-time hours
- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays rising with service and the option to buy/sell
- Free Parking
- Additional day of leave for your birthday
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Salary sacrifice company pension (5% employer contribution rising with service)
- Hybrid working (1 or 2 days per week remote working from home)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Discounted legal services
- Life insurance
Above all they offer a flexible, team spirited, friendly working environment that rewards you for your hard work.
About the Company
This Legal Administrator job is within a a highly successful law firm, with a client base tracking back decades. The firm is growing is one of the strongest names in the Teesside legal market, having won many awards over the past years.
Next Steps
Apply now to be considered for this career enhancing job opportunity. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion about this Legal Administrator job, please send your CV to Amy Watson at the Eventus Recruitment Group via email at amy.watson@eventuslegal.com or phone 0113 418 2494.
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