About Us:
Wilkes is one of the leading independent medium-sized UK law firms operating from the Midlands region. We provide a wide range of specialist expertise aimed at our core clients – businesses, individuals, financiers and charities.
Our expert solicitors specialise in a wide range of legal services for both businesses and individuals. Choosing a solicitor is an important decision, and client satisfaction is at the core of everything we do. Our aim from the outset is to become trusted advisors to our clients and consistently provide legal excellence at every opportunity.
About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced Legal Secretary to join our dynamic and growing Private Client Department. You will provide vital administrative support to our fee earners, assisting in areas such as wills and probate, trusts administration, and other private client matters.
As a key member of a team of 10, led by our Head of Department Andrew Hasnip, you’ll be working in a collaborative environment where we’re committed to providing excellent service to our clients.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide full secretarial support to fee earners, including diary management, document preparation, and client liaison.
- Dictation typing and preparing correspondence, documents, and forms.
- Assist in the administration of wills, probate, and trusts, ensuring compliance with legal processes.
- Manage correspondence, filing, and maintaining client records.
- Handle telephone and email inquiries from clients and external parties.
Requirements:
- Proven 1-2 years’ experience as a Legal Secretary within Private Client department.
- Excellent typing skills, able to quickly and accurately process legal documents, including correspondence and bills, from manuscript or digital dictation, with minimal supervision.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize a busy workload.
- Experience of Tikit (or similar case management system) and BigHand dictation would be advantageous but not essential.
- Good telephone manner; able to take messages from new and existing clients on the telephone with accuracy and pass on in a timely manner.
- Excellent IT skills with the ability to pick up new systems quickly.
- Displays a can-do, positive attitude to work, and a high degree of self-management.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a professional telephone manner.
- A keen eye for detail and a high level of accuracy in all work.
- Ability to work well as part of a team and independently.
What We Offer:
- Additional leave and paid volunteer time
- Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
- Health & wellbeing programmes
- Company pension and life insurance
- Employee discounts and company events
- Cycle to work scheme & Transport links
- Free flu jabs
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
If you're an experienced Legal Secretary looking for your next challenge and want to be part of a forward-thinking team, we'd love to hear from you!
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £25,000.00-£26,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Transport links
- Work from home
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Birmingham, B3 2RT: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Dictation Typing: 1 year (required)
- Legal Secretarial: 2 years (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Birmingham, B3 2RT
