Property Litigation Legal Secretary

Property Litigation Legal Secretary – Mayfair £39K plus bonus

Our client, a mid tier firm in Mayfair are looking for an experienced property litigation legal secretary.

The role is available as their existing secretary will be moving internally into a more fee earning/legal executive role.

This role will be working for 7 lawyers (1 partner, 6 associates). The partner in the allocation heads the department and she is absolutely a pleasure to work for so the role is extremely appealing. 

They ideally need someone with experience of working in a property litigation department. However, will consider  a general litigation team (e.g. commercial litigation etc.) who also have worked in a real estate department before. The key requirement is current experience in a contentious department.

As this role involves looking after the Head of Department, there will be lots of inbox/diary/calendar management

Other requirements:

• They need a secretary who will stay one step ahead and be proactive
• Has the ability to meet deadlines and use our support functions to get all work done (e.g. using Document Production for lengthy documentation work and our admin team for low level scanning/archiving/scanning/photocopying etc.). 
• Someone who is familiar with contentious work, courts forms, trial bundles etc.
• In relation to real estate, experience with the Land Registry, OYEZ/Laserforms & Companies House would be ideal.

 Salary on offer is £39,000 plus annual performance related bonus of up to £2,500 on top (plus benefits).