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Kennedys is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our Birmingham office.
The successful Legal Secretary will provide an efficient, proactive, and comprehensive secretarial service to a busy team of fee earners.
Team
Kennedys' professional liability team deal with all areas of professional liability and handle claims of all sizes and complexity, including insurers who underwrite some of the world's largest financial institutions, global law firms, the 'Big Four' accounting firms, as well as insurers who underwrite regional, local, and smaller institutions and firms.
Key Responsibilities
- Client onboarding and new matter process.
- Preparation of standard correspondence.
- 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.
- Build relationships with clients, including responding to clients' 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.
- Drafting court forms.
- Responding to insolvency practitioners with financial information to assist with preparation of annual reports (the financial information is extracted from elite).
- Client Helplines, tracking, and updating workflows.
- Report, and assist in resolving, any IT issues for self, fee earners, and partners.
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Required Experience
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- Previous legal secretarial experience.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Strong team-working skills with the ability to work independently.
- Proficient in MS Office packages. Desirable skillset in Adobe Acrobat, Power PDF/PDF Docs.
- Knowledge of case management systems.
- AI tools, e.g., CoPilot.
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