Legal Secretary

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Our client is a market leading and forward thinking law firm. This is an exciting time to join their Residential Development team as it continues to win repeat and new work from its impressive client base of recognised national and regional housebuilders. They are the leading residential development and urban regeneration legal team in the country acting for 18 of the top 20 UK housebuilders, institutional landowners and other large-scale sector participants

The team acts for national and regional housebuilders, promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to 6,500 new homes. They act on large scale development matters such as development agreements, conditional contracts, options, corporate and contractual joint venture and collaboration agreements. They also assist our housebuilder clients with strategic land projects.

The Person

The successful candidate will be confident liaising with multiple stakeholders and clients, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless secretarial support service.

In particular, they look for the following attributes:

• Previous legal secretarial experience
• Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is essential.
• First class communication skills both written and verbal.
• Excellent levels of accuracy.
• Initiative to learn and ability to self-motivate.
• Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines with the ability to remain calm.
• Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills.
• Always demonstrate discretion and the ability to maintain absolute confidentiality at all times.
• IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.

Whilst we would love to be able to respond to every application we receive, it is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 7 working days, please assume that your application has not been successful on this occasion.