Legal Secretary

The London Team is a growing and high‑performing part of Weightmans’ national Specialty offering. The team delivers high‑value transactional and advisory work across London and beyond.

We are looking to recruit a Legal Secretary to support the Specialty team in London or Leicester which specialises in insurance litigation. The Specialty team undertakes a broad range of substantial, challenging and largely contentious work.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Providing essential secretarial and administrative support to the team
• Providing assistance to the team with the billing process (including sending invoices to clients) and debt recovery
• Carrying out conflict checks and opening new matters on the firm’s systems
• Arranging and co-ordinating meetings, events and seminars, in close co-operation with fee-earners
• Completion of management information
• Booking travel and dealing with expenses, in accordance with firm policy
• Dealing with confidential, sensitive and restricted internal and client matters
• Providing ad hoc support to campaign and marketing activities
• Liaising with support staff to manage workloads efficiently
• Assisting with other work allocated by the Team Manager
• Working in accordance with Weightmans’ values

Basic Fee Earning Work, Including

• Drafting basic correspondence, document reviews, chronologies and preparing court and other documentation
• Preparing instructions to experts/counsel and paper/electronic bundles of documents
• Liaising by phone and e‑mail with client contacts, counsel and third parties
• Attending meetings and preparing attendance notes
• Recording time for an such chargeable work
• Carrying out basic research as required

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