Kennedys is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our Birmingham office. The successful Legal Secretary will provide an efficient, proactive and comprehensive secretarial service to a busy team of fee earners.
Team
Kennedys' professional liability team deal with all areas of professional liability and handle claims of all sizes and complexity, including insurers who underwrite some of the world's largest financial institutions, global law firms, the 'Big Four' accounting firms, as well as insurers who underwrite regional, local and smaller institutions and firms.
Key Responsibilities
Client onboarding and new matter process.
Preparation of standard correspondence.
Thorough diary management arrange meetings and manage changes as and when they arise
Arrange travel for fee earners and partners both nationally and internationally and process all related expenses
Build relationships with clients, including responding to clients' specific requests for information and going the extra mile to assist them
Assist proactively with billing and credit control queries
Creating electronic court bundles including preparing the index.
Gathering/sorting documents for bundle.
Paginating and hyper-linking court bundles
Submitting court documents via the e-file portal.
Preparing exhibits to witness statements.
Cross referencing witness statements.
Drafting court forms.
Responding to insolvency practitioners with financial information to assist with preparation of annual reports (the financial information is extracted from elite).
Client Helplines, tracking and updating workflows.
Report, and assist in resolving, any IT issues for self, fee earners and partners.
Required Experience
Previous legal secretarial experience.
Excellent attention to detail.
Strong team-working skills with the ability to work independently.
Proficient in MS Office packages. Desirable skillset in Adobe Acrobat, Power PDF/PDF Docs.
Knowledge of case management systems.
AI tools e.g. CoPilot.
Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.
