Open Positions

Our thriving London office is looking for a Legal Secretary to join the Litigation and Competition Practice Groups. 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.

With over 1,500 lawyers spanning more than 40 offices across four continents, the firm is renowned for its local connections and global influence, delivering comprehensive legal services across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. 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 supporting the Litigation and Competition Practice Groups providing secretarial and administration support. You'll be reporting into the London office Secretarial Services Manager and will be working alongside Partners and Associates and other Secretaries in teams. Occasionally you may be expected to provide support to other teams as and when required.

Our Opportunity

In this dynamic and busy role, no two days will be the same. This role would be ideal for someone who is an experienced Legal Secretary who is able to deal with billing, client inceptions, assist with managing busy diaries and inboxes. It would be helpful to have some experience or knowledge of working in Litigation.

You'll be involved in complex billing tasks, to include finalising and sending out bills, client and matter inceptions and understanding KYC requirements. Extensive diary management and managing and proactively dealing with inboxes. The role involves dealing with international travel and all elements of a busy secretarial role.

You must have a positive and professional approach at all times and work efficiently in a busy environment.

Monday-Friday, 9.30am-5.30pm

You

As this is a varied role, you'll need to be an organised, proactive individual who can easily prioritise and juggle workloads. 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 have experience of complex billing, client inceptions and managing busy inboxes and extensive diary management. Proven experience of working in a law firm is essential.

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, and a good eye for detail are a must.

You will be able to demonstrate experience as a Legal Secretary.

What you need to know

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

We are an inclusive employer and aim to ensure our workforce is representative of our diverse society. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity. 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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