Legal Secretary - Employment
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About us
Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, we have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals and over 600 staff based in Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: Real Estate, Corporate Services, Dispute Resolution and Private Client.
The team you will join
Our Employment team boast some of the best lawyers in the country. Their work is varied and includes individual client, companies, charities, education and health institutions and others.
Our Employment Team will help our clients be informed and to manage regulatory changes, so that they are not a barrier to effective staff management and business growth.
We have one of the largest employment law teams across the South and East, with expertise across the board in all issues facing businesses from everyday operational challenges to advising on strategic issues.
Our lawyers give proactive, timely and effective advice to help clients manage their staff in a way that suits their organisation’s needs, advising on a diverse range of businesses from start up through to cessation and everything in between.
The work you will be doing
The Employment Team are recruiting for an articulate and forward-thinking Legal Secretary to come and join us on a permanent basis, to be based in our Norwich office, to provide professional, pro-active, and high-level administration support to a group of busy ambitious fee earners based in Norwich.
Key accountabilities include:
- Onboard new clients and maintain current clients’ information dealing with compliance requirements
- Format, paginate, number and present documents (settlement agreements, etc)
Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.
What we are looking for
You will have the ability to contribute at an operational level working well in a team and with excellent communication skills and can demonstrate general skills in:
- Strong proactive administration and or secretarial experience.
- Positive, enthusiastic, and professional approach.
- Strong attention to detail, high level organisational skills and reliable.
- Self-motivated with an ability to use own initiative with a desire to learn.
- Flexibility to learn and manage new things and work at pace when needed.
- Ability to create positive impressions and relationships with clients.
- Ability to liaise closely and seamlessly with colleagues in other offices and build good working relationships with others.
Hybrid Working
Birketts is a flexible business which has embraced a hybrid working model where our colleagues enjoy a mix of home and office working. This role attracts a split of 60% office days and 40% working from home days per week.
Benefits
As a Birketts colleague, you will be eligible to receive a wide range of benefits:
- 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays
- Long Service holiday award - 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
- Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee)
- Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme
- Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
- Life Assurance - 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
- Paid CSR Day
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Subsidised gym membership
- Electric car scheme
- Dress for your Day Policy
You can find out more on our website: https://www.birketts.co.uk/recognition-reward-benefits/
Inclusivity and Culture
At Birketts, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success, development, and wellbeing of our colleagues, helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth.
Birketts is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is unequivocal: we do not tolerate discrimination based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or sexual orientation.
We pride ourselves on being an inclusive organisation that actively promotes equality of opportunity for all, valuing the right mix of talent, skills, and potential. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates, and selection for roles is based solely on individual merit.