Legal Secretary

Job Description

Are you a Legal Secretary looking for a new job in Dublin City Centre? We are currently looking to speak with experienced Legal Secretary's for a permanent job

We are looking to recruit a Legal Secretary on a full time, permanent basis. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join a brand new and growing office in Dublin. This person will provide excellent Legal Secretarial support at Partner and Associate level. The position will be within the Asset management & Investment Funds team but could be subject to change with business needs.

Key requirements

• Minimum of 3 years experience working in a legal secretary/assistant role
• Legal experience preferred
• Must be organised, practical and pragmatic
• Must have a flexible attitude to work
• Must have excellent IT skills (Microsoft Office, Excel and PowerPoint)
• Must be experienced with a document management system
• Ability to communicate effectively
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Have a polite, friendly and confident telephone manner
• Ability to work unsupervised
• Conscientious with a common sense approach to work
• Tidy personal appearance
• Willingness to learn
• Ability to work under pressure and to deadlines
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Legal investment funds experience preferred

Key task areas

• Organising meetings and maintaining Partner diaries
• Amending Documents
• Arranging travel, accommodation and visa if required for business trips
• Carrying out background research on people/companies prior to meetings
• Bill and narrative preparation
• Client file opening
• Organising expenses using Concur
• Organising and managing the filing systems and organising e-mail filing
• Preparing files and documents for, and retrieval from, storage
• AML
• Time recording

Personal attributes

• Efficient
• Discreet
• Confident
• Good communicator
• Ability to think ahead and use initiative
• Courteous to clients
• Team player

Morgan McKinley is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.