Norton Rose Fulbright Careers
Job Description
Legal Secretary - Dispute Resolution
Job Location
Milan
Practice Group/Department
Disputes and Litigation
Role
Secretarial
Job Title
Legal Secretary - Dispute Resolution
Work Type
Full Time
Description
Established in 2000, our Milan office provides a wide range of
transactional and regulatory advice to national and multinational
corporations, banks and financial institutions, insurance companies
and private equity funds, as well as entrepreneurs across many
sectors. We also represent clients in domestic and international disputes.
The successful candidate will work as part of a highly motivated
secretarial team to provide professional, proactive, high level
secretarial and PA support to a disputes partner and an allocated
group of fee earners within the wider fee earning team.
The Role
Technical Ability
- To produce and amend documents with speed and accuracy including
the ability to process electronic dictation.
- To format, paginate, number and present documents in the format required,
- To proof read all work, checking for spelling and grammar,
- To be a user of key software packages, (i.e.
Word/PowerPoint/Excel) and take responsibility for any training , to
improve relevant skills needed to meet the needs of the business,
- To proactively work with the fee earners to ensure relevant
documentation is produced to meet clients' expectations and deadlines,
- To produce power point and other presentations and marketing materials
Administrative and other Skills
- File management,
- Manage diaries of allocated fee earners in Microsoft Outlook (such
as making appointments and arranging meetings, booking restaurants
and taxis etc.)
- Process expense claims and payment requisition forms
- To manage Consolle Avvocato with search, extrapolation,
filing, printing and archive of all kind of legal documents and
deeds necessary to the team for any specific judicial proceedings;
- To maintain and update client and other relevant contact details
on CMS/Connect database,
- To process all forms including new client form, new matter form,
money laundering form etc.
- To make sure that all electronic filing and paper-based filing is
up to date and maintained at regular intervals
- assist in bundling and other hearing preparations
- To keep billing files up to date
- To carry out photocopying and scanning as required
Skills and Experience Required
- English Language GCSE or equivalent
- Track record of working for an international law firm
- experience in disputes work, preferably including both arbitration
and litigation
- Accurate and computer literate
- Ability to use initiative/problem solver
- Organized with an ability to meet deadlines
- Pro-active and positive with an ability to build working relationships
- Strong communication skills and telephone techniques
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Confident and professional with an ability to use own judgment
- Flexible with an ability to work outside core hours if required
More information can be found the job description attached. In case
of any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at ITARecruting@nortonrosefulbright.com
. We look forward to receiving your CV!
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