Legal Secretary (Maternity Cover Position ) FTC 12 Months - Dublin
DAC Beachcroft Dublin is looking to recruit a Legal Secretary to work within our Regulatory Team. We are seeking a legal secretary with litigation experience and who is accustomed to working in a busy team environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Preparing correspondence and documents from digital dictation
- Preparing briefs
- Creating, amending and formatting legal documents and templates with a high degree of accuracy
- Monthly billing, including raising proformas and issuing invoices to clients
- General financial hygiene, tracking debt, liaising with clients regarding outstanding debt
- File management, including/both physical and electronic filing, scanning, photocopying and archiving
- Liaising with experts/counsel
- Arranging meetings/consultations
- Diary management
- Assist with expense claims
- Booking of meeting rooms
- Issuing large documents such as briefs to counsel/experts via Sharefile
- Billing preparation and issuing bills to clients
- Booking travel
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Proven experience of working as a Legal Secretary is a must
- Strong dictation experience
- A minimum of 60 wpm
- Proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF Docs and Sharefile
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential
- Excellent administration skills
- Ability to work on one's own initiative
- Ability to draft correspondence when asked to do so
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise large workloads
- Ability to multi-task and work to strict deadlines
- Team orientated and collaborative with a flexible attitude
- Professional telephone manner and excellent communication skills, both written and oral
- The candidate should have a positive, helpful and cheerful attitude
- Experience of preparing briefs
About DAC Beachcroft
We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.
At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.
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