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Our thriving London office is looking for a Junior Legal Secretary to join their dynamic team. We need you to be an organised, professional individual who has a "can do" attitude to helping 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 operating in 40+ offices across four continents provide unrivalled access to expertise. In the UK, we have offices in Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds and London.

The firm is committed to promoting an inclusive and supportive working environment. Embedded by local champions in each of our UK offices, our well-regarded family and carer, wellbeing and DEI 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 part of the London Secretarial team providing secretarial support to partners and associates with a focus on the Financial Services practice. You'll also be expected to provide support to the wider office and national locations as and when required. You'll be reporting into the London Secretarial Services Manager.

Our Opportunity

This role would be ideal for someone who has worked in a professional services environment and has undertaken a role as an Administration Assistant or a Junior Secretary.

You'll conduct client and matter inceptions, undertake in-depth billing and have involvement in some documentation work (with support by our Document Services team). You'll be dealing with expenses, arranging travel and supporting the team on their daily admin to include time recording, diary management and inputting on the firm's BD database whilst generally getting involved in the daily tasks of a busy law firm.You'll also be responsible for the filing and archiving for the team including electronic filing for partners.

You must have a positive and professional approach at all times.

You

As this is a varied role, you'll need to be an organised, proactive individual who can easily prioritise. You'll need to have the flexibility to assist other departments when required. You should also be able to use your initiative and spot where help is needed with limited supervision.

You'll also have the ability to juggle competing priorities. You will need to be confident in working with our billing and client inception systems.

As you will be dealing with clients of the firm, excellent communication skills are key for this role. Ideally you'll have good knowledge of all Microsoft packages along with strong keyboard skills, a quick typing speed and a good eye for detail are a must.

You will have at least 3 years' experience of working in a professional service firm.

What you need to know

If you're interested in finding out more about this role, please visit our website at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careers. We are unable to process applications sent directly by email. Please complete an online application. We will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis.

We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our diverse society. We will make reasonable adjustments and adaptions to our recruitment process to ensure it is inclusive for anyone who wishes to apply. We may collect relevant data for monitoring as part of our candidate registration process.

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