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Ref: GP932-811
Job description / Role
My client, an international law firm based in Dubai, is looking for a legal secretary with 2 years + experience.
This is the perfect opportunity for an experienced candidate to gain further exposure to the arbitration and disputes resolution department of an international firm.
Responsibilities:
- Answer calls and take messages when required. -Forwarding messages in a timely manner.
- Accurately types amended agreements and correspondence by the Fee-earner.
- Checks own work for correct use of punctuation and grammar.
- Composes, types and sends out letter / e-mails with the approval of the Fee-earner if client related.
- Maintains the diary, arrange appointments, meetings and travel as directed by the Fee-earner.
Prepares and assembles bibles or documents for client meetings.
- Performs a variety of administrative routines and ad-hoc work within the general guidelines, as directed by the Fee-earner.
- Creates and maintains effective filing systems where the information could be of a highly sensitive/confidential nature..
- General day-to-day secretarial duties.
Requirements
- Excellent command of written and spoken English
- 2 years experience in an international law firm
- Arbitration and Dispute resolution experience is preferred but not essential.
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team, to use on initiative.
About the Company
At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.