Legal Secretary | Dorchester | Salary - DOA 

Are you an organised Legal Secretary who enjoys keeping busy legal teams operating at their best?
Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where attention to detail and initiative are genuinely valued?
This Legal Secretary opportunity offers long-term stability within a growing legal practice.

Led by the Head of Team, the Construction department is busy and expanding, advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters for contractors, developers, landowners and professional advisers. As a Legal Secretary, you will play a key role in supporting fee earners while becoming a trusted and integral part of the wider support function.

As Legal Secretary, you will benefit from:

• A generous holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Christmas office shutdown
• Your birthday off
• An additional paid day to support volunteering
• Simply Health health and wellbeing benefits
• Life insurance cover
• Pension scheme
• A stable, full-time role within a growing Construction team
• Support from another Legal Secretary with shared responsibilities

As Legal Secretary, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing efficient secretarial and administrative support to fee earners
• Liaising professionally with clients and third parties
• Audio typing and producing accurate legal documentation
• File management and diary coordination
• Supporting billing and compliance processes alongside another Legal Secretary

As Legal Secretary, your experience will include:

• Previous experience supporting a legal team, ideally within Construction, Property, or Litigation and/or strong Administrative/ secretarial experience within a similar industry 
  
• Excellent organisational skills and strong attention to detail
• Confidence managing a varied workload in a fast-paced environment
• Strong IT literacy with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Experience using modern document management systems
• A positive, friendly, and proactive approach

If you’re ready to take the next step in your legal support career and see yourself becoming a valued Legal Secretary within a busy construction practice, apply today with an up-to-date CV or call Harriet Forrester at Rubicon for more information.