Legal Secretary

Join Weightmans' award-winning Family team in Glasgow, recognised by Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. Supporting a team of experienced family lawyers, you'll play a key role in delivering exceptional client service across a broad range of family law matters, including divorce, financial settlements and child-related disputes. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a highly regarded, collaborative team within a leading national law firm.

Main duties & Responsibilities

• Support the Partners and other fee-earners with regard to client relationship management, business development and general secretarial support.
• Updating and maintaining key dates in the relevant diaries, as well as co-ordinating events and seminars, in close cooperation with fee-earners
• Provision of secretarial support to the fee-earners in the team.
• Processing of dictation received from the designated fee-earners along with any work allocated by the team manager or support team manager
• Case file management and support
• Creation of correspondence and documentation under direction and on own initiative
• Maintaining a high level of accuracy
• Adherance to the service levels within the team (especially as required by client service level agreements) and ensure work is completed within these levels at all times
• Effective liaison with the team manager and support team manager to ensure high quality of service to clients
• Effective liaison with other support staff to manage workloads efficiently
• Active progression of one's own professional development with support from the team manager and support team manager
• Dealing with confidential client matters
• Providing assistance with billing and archiving
• Providing support in relation to case management and IT systems
• Compliance with relevant policies and procedures
• Working in accordance with Weightmans' values

This list is not intended to be exhaustive and you will be expected to perform other duties and have other responsibilities that fall within the wider remit of the role.