Squire Patton Boggs
Legal Secretary (Real Estate) - Birmingham
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Description
Our thriving Birmingham office is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our Real Estate practice group. We need you to be an organised, professional individual who has a "can do" attitude and willing to go that extra mile to help colleagues at all times.
Our Firm
Squire Patton Boggs is one of the world's strongest integrated law firms, committed to providing insight at the point where law, business and government meet. We deliver commercially focused business solutions by combining our legal, lobbying and political capabilities and invaluable connections on the ground to a diverse mix of clients, from long-established leading corporations to emerging businesses, start-up visionaries and sovereign nations.
More than 1,500 lawyers in 45 offices across 20 countries on five continents provide unrivalled access to expertise. In the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.
The firm is committed to promoting a collaborative and supportive working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and workplace culture and development programmes provide a variety of flexible working options to support individuals' life journeys, helping our people pursue their personal and professional goals.
Our Team
You will be working closely with the Legal Secretaries in our Real Estate practice group providing secretarial and administration support to the Partners and Associates. You'll be reporting into the Birmingham office Secretarial Services Manager. Occasionally you may be expected to provide support to other teams as and when required.
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Our Opportunity
This role would be ideal for someone who is currently carrying out administration and secretarial duties within an office environment, preferably supporting at partner level in a national or global law firm.
You'll conduct client inceptions, billing and will have telephone and email contact with clients. There will be some element of documentation work along with general tasks such as expenses, arranging travel, filing and archiving and getting involved in the daily tasks of a busy law firm.
You'll work alongside the existing team as well as taking ownership of complex billing tasks and client reporting; client and matter inceptions (including understanding KYC requirements.
Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm. Flexibility Required.
You
This is a varied role and you'll therefore need to be an organised and pro-active individual who can easily prioritise. You'll need to be a self-starter and able to manage your time and workload effectively as well demonstrate your flexibility and experience of working in a team to assist other departments when required. You'll also be able to use your initiative and identify where help is needed with limited supervision.
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As you will be dealing with individuals at all levels, including clients of the firm, you must be confident in communicating warmly and professionally and have superb interpersonal skills. You'll have good knowledge of all Microsoft packages along with strong keyboard skills, and be meticulous about attention to detail.
You will have 2 years' experience of working in a professional service firm and you will have knowledge of Land Registry forms, uploading applications as well as experience of Search Acumen.
What You Need To Know
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our careers site https://www.squirepattonboggs.com/join-us/. We are unable to process applications sent directly by email. Please complete an online application.
We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our society. We welcome applications regardless of age, neurodiversity, disability, family or parental status, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity and expression or other legally protected characteristics. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply.
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