Legal Secretary

Job description / Role

We are currently working with my client a multinational law firm in Abu Dhabi to recruit an experienced Legal Secretary to join the team.

The role will be to provide secretarial services to one or more Fee-earners, performing a range of administrative duties.

Job duties:
- Answer phone calls from clients and internal staff, screen, forward and take messages when required.
- Accurately type and amended agreements and correspondence, proof read checking of punctuation and grammar.
- Compose, type and produce letters/ e-mails.
- Maintain calendars/ diary, organise meetings and travel for the team.
- Prepares and assembles documents for client meetings.
- Performs a variety of administrative work within company guidelines, as directed by the team.
- Creates and maintains effective filing systems taking caution to highly sensitive/confidential documentation.
- Assist lawyers in entering their time accurately on to in-house system.
- Coordinating with Accounts and lawyers to send invoices to the clients; drafting cover letters and ensuring invoices are billed correctly before sending to the client.
- General day-to-day secretarial duties as directed by the team.

Requirements

- Previous experience as a Legal Secretary preferable for a law firm, solicitors or an internal legal team.
- Good attention to detail and organisational skills.
- Able to support a team and multi-task.
- Native level of English language.

About the Company

At Hays, we invest in lifelong partnerships that empower people and businesses to succeed. With over 50 years’ success under our belts and a workforce of 10,000+ people across 32 countries, we’ve evolved to put our customers at the heart of everything we do.

So much more than a specialist recruitment business, what really sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding and our ability to meaningfully innovate for our customers. By providing advice, insights and expertise on issues you face today in the fast-paced world of work, we help you make the right decisions for tomorrow.

Offering an unrivalled suite of recruitment and workplace solutions, whether you’re looking for what’s next in your career, or have a gap to fill, we’ll help you get where you want to go.

You can rely on us to deliver today and help you plan for tomorrow.