Junior Legal Assistant/ Secretary in Canary Wharf £17ph (on-going temp/temp to perm)

My client is recruiting for a Junior Legal Assistant/ Secretary on an initial 3 month basis with the potential to be extended. The successful candidate will be providing full secretarial/administrative support to a Team, however will also be heavily involved with legal casework. A Law degree/ CILEx qualification is preferable.

Duties will include:

• Extensive diary management
• Arranging meetings, taking minutes and ensuring papers are circulated on time
• Monitoring and dealing with emails
• Dealing with enquiries as appropriate and taking telephone messages
• Typing (audio and copy) of interview transcripts, general correspondence, reports, etc.
• Distribution and logging of post
• Managing documentation and filing
• Maintaining and updating project management documentation
• Casework for Dissolved Companies – and processing the administrative cancellations
• Handling the processing of amendments to firms permissions for teams
• Statistical and reporting work – ad hoc and monthly, quarterly and providing statistics for the annual report.
• Monitoring firm data on in-house systems
• Creating folders in Livelink (in-house)
• Creating and updating procedure documents for each case type
• Gather Know How information for the team
• Travel Booking
• Assisting with Recruitment for the team

Candidate MUST possess the following experience/skills:

• Providing full secretarial/administrative support to a high standard;
• Providing an efficient and effective document management service;
• Maintaining up to date and accurate administrative paper and electronic systems
• Providing efficient case management support where assigned e.g. updated project plans.