Our thriving Manchester office is looking for a Legal Secretary to
join our Real Estate - Construction team. We need an organised,
professional individual who has a 'can do' attitude and is willing to
go the 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.
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
Manchester office Secretarial Services Manager.
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 Secretary
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), extensive diary
management and dealing with international travel.
You must have a positive and professional approach at all times.
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.
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 a minimum of 2 years' experience of working in a
professional service firm.
What you need to know
If you are interested in finding out more about this role, please
visit our website at www.squirepattonboggs.com/en/careersin
the first instance. We are unable to process applications sent
directly by email. Please complete an online application. No agency
CVs accepted at this time.
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, neurodiversity 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.
