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Role Trainee Secretary
Job Location London
Expertise Business Services - Secretarial
Title Trainee Secretary
Description

Clyde & Co is a leading international law firm which works worldwide across 120 countries.  Our work is cross-border, high profile and complex. With almost 1300 staff based in 21 offices worldwide, we have genuine in-depth knowledge of our chosen industries.  The firm has established a reputation for providing international advice on a varied range of transactional, contentious, and regulatory issues and critical to this is a commercial, entrepreneurial and pragmatic approach.

Our history in the insurance and reinsurance industry means our expertise here is still unrivalled.  We also have particular strength in aviation and aerospace; energy, trade and commodities and shipping, transport and logistics.  Our dispute resolution and international arbitration practice is world-class, and we also field leading experts in corporate and commercial law, EC and competition, employment and real estate.

Reflecting the firm’s entrepreneurial spirit, we have established offices in Abu Dhabi, Caracas, Doha, Dubai, Guildford, Hong Kong, London, Moscow, Nantes, New York, Paris, Piraeus, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Shanghai, Singapore and associate offices in Bangalore, Belgrade, Mumbai, Riyadh and St Petersburg.

Overall the firm employs almost 1,300 people worldwide and of these, over 500 are qualified lawyers.  The partnership currently stands at around 163 and the firm’s turnover is in excess of £185 million pa. 

The firm is a limited liability partnership, which includes foreign lawyers as well as English solicitors, qualified in no fewer than 17 jurisdictions and fluent in over 37 languages.

The firm was awarded the 2007 Queen's Award for Enterprise in International Trade.

 

JOB OVERVIEW:

  • A one-year programme starting with a one week induction, followed by a number of further training modules covering customer care skills, assertiveness, IT training, document production, executive PA training, and general office procedures
  • Trainee legal secretaries will be placed in one practice group for the term of their contract
  • Trainee legal secretaries will be given feedback and guidance to assist in their development
  • Each trainee legal secretary will be allocated a mentor to support them and offer guidance
  • It is hoped that successful completion of the trainee legal secretary programme will lead to a permanent position in the firm, but this will be dependant upon available vacancies, skill levels and experience required for the role

 

See attached for more details. 

 

Closing date for applications is 12 March 2010. 

 

For further information, please contact Jo Ludwig (joanna.ludwig@clydeco.com).

 

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