Ref: NP447-1035

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

A global legal firm that is well established in the Middle East are seeking a Legal Secretary for their Abu Dhabi offices. With a strong reputation for professionalism and working with some of the largest corporations across the region, the successful individual will need to have exceptional administrative and typing skills and be able to produce documents of high quality and accuracy within multiple deadlines.

Therefore, we are seeking a committed Legal Secretary to provide secretarial and administrative support at both Partner and Senior Lawyer level. The incumbent will be expected to perform all job duties in a superior manner and provide a first-class service to clients, producing quality work products and maintaining an atmosphere of teamwork and continuous improvement whilst maintaining consistency with the firm’s core values.

Requirements

Essential duties encompass using the IT legal system to type and edit correspondence, memoranda, bills, timesheets and project work from transcription tapes, handwritten or typed materials, or shorthand notes. Proofreading for accuracy of copy, managing telephone, conference calls and incoming and outgoing email, performing secretarial functions associated with firm administration tasks, including processing new client/matter requests, client bills, time reports and expense reports on behalf of the fee earners. Additionally, there will be some travel arrangements, hotel accommodation, and coordinating conferences, meetings and appointments.

Applications are invited from those with a thorough knowledge of MS Office applications and experience of the preparation of time records, expense reports, client bills and conflict checking forms. The incumbent must have the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment, meet deadlines, handle multiple tasks and respond to consistently changing priorities.

About the Company

Irwin & Dow was established in 2013 to provide clients with a unique and highly personalised recruitment service, providing the very top calibre of candidates across the business support and secretarial function.

We provide a refreshing approach, working in close partnership with clients and candidates across diverse industry sectors; large MNC’s, government & semi -government entities, SME’s, local businesses and in the start-up and UHNWI support framework.

Great people equal great success: all our candidates are interviewed personally by a member of the team, and we develop longstanding and in-depth relationships with our clients, understanding their corporate culture and goals to ensure a successful outcome for both parties.

Our values of discretion and diplomacy are paramount, and we are pleased to be a partner of choice for clients and candidates.

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Secretary salaries in UAE

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AED 4,500

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