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Closing Date: 09/06/2023

Location/Division: London

Collyer Bristow LLP is a leading mid-tier law firm with offices in London and Geneva. We provide a comprehensive legal service to a wide range of businesses and private individuals. Our client base includes multinationals, public and private companies, partnerships, public sector organisations and private clients. We have a vacancy for a Junior Legal Secretary to predominantly support fee earners undertaking Tax & Estate Planning work but there will also be an opportunity to support fee earners in other teams across the firm. You would be expected to undertake a range of secretarial and administrative duties with guidance from a Legal Secretary, including digital typing, opening & closing files, obtaining billing guides and preparing draft bills, filing and e-filing, maintaining diaries including organising and scheduling meetings, booking lunches, greeting client visitors, booking training courses and managing queries from clients as required. Where necessary you will also be required to provide additional support to secretarial and fee earner staff within the firm. You also will be one of a team of people who organise travel arrangements (air/train tickets) for fee earners in the firm. You should be pro-active, motivated and keen to be a part of the team and support the fee earners. You must have the ability to prioritise and work on your own initiative to manage a busy workload. You should be proficient in Microsoft office applications, in particular Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook and possess fast, accurate typing and excellent written and verbal communication skills. You should ideally have at least 6 months’ legal secretarial experience preferably obtained in a trainee legal secretary role or at least 6 months’ experience in an administration role. Formal secretarial training e.g. ILEX is desirable, but not essential. Normal working hours will be 9.30 am – 5.30pm Monday to Friday but candidates must be prepared to work outside contractual hours as and when required. We offer hybrid working (3 days in the office, 2 days remotely). The closing date for applications is 9 June 2023. NO AGENCIES PLEASE and we will not be accepting any CVs from these sources. Collyer Bristow is committed to a fair and equal recruitment process, and will not discriminate against any candidate's application based on their age, disability, marital status, race or national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or gender reassignment. In accordance with General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) the firm will not retain personal data longer than is necessary for the purposes of determining the suitability of a particular candidate for a role. All recruitment applications received by the Human Resources team will be processed for this purpose, and kept in the format in which they are received (e.g. in paper and/or electronic file) for a period of no longer than 6 months, unless the candidate is part of a recruitment process which is likely to exceed that time period. In that case the data will be retained for an extended period of 6 months following the conclusion of the process. Following this 6 month (or extended) period, the candidate’s personal information will be securely and confidentially destroyed.