Secretary, Administrative​/Clerical

Location:

London

Job Type: Full Time, Permanent

Reports to:

Secretarial Manager

Owen Reed is looking for an organised and proactive Secretary to join a law firm in London on a full-time, permanent basis.

You will provide high-quality secretarial support to fee earners, helping them manage their workloads and focus on delivering legal services to clients. Working closely with Partners, Associates, secretaries and team administrators, you will coordinate diaries, correspondence, documents, billing and business development activities.

• Proactively manage fee earners' diaries, schedule appointments and coordinate internal and external client meetings, identifying and resolving scheduling conflicts.
• Develop a good understanding of fee earners' clients and build relationships with their PAs.
• Monitor meeting responses and ensure fee earners receive relevant materials and information in advance.
• Arrange conference rooms, video conferencing, taxis, refreshments and restaurants, liaising with internal and external attendees.
• Monitor post and emails, prioritise correspondence and direct enquiries to the appropriate colleagues. Respond to and file emails on behalf of fee earners where appropriate.
• Organise travel through the firm's travel provider, including flights, hotels, transfers, currency, reservations and detailed itineraries.

• Coordinate photocopying, scanning, printing and document production, delegating to specialist departments and team administrators where appropriate.
• Manage new client and matter opening, following Service Excellence procedures and workbooks.
• Maintain electronic and paper filing, including file closure and archiving.
• Submit travel invoices and expense claims through Chrome River.
• Submit supplier invoices to Accounts Payable and monitor progress.
• Support the end-to-end billing process using AX, proactively coordinating administrative requirements to ensure bills are completed on time.
• Prepare WIP reports for fee earners to review.
• Assist fee earners, the Secretarial Co-ordinator and Group Head with Intapp time recording and reporting.

• Maintain accurate Inter Action records, adding new contacts, sharing Outlook contacts, updating details and recording marketing and business development activities.
• Prepare contact reports ahead of meetings and pitches.
• Update and maintain information and pages on the SharePoint intranet.
• Support events through speaker CV preparation, formatting materials, RSVP management and responding to delegate enquiries by Teams and email.
• Use Inter Action reporting to answer fee earners' questions about attendees.
• Monitor the intranet events calendar, highlight relevant events to fee earners and notify organisers of attendance.

• Draft letters and correspondence, proofreading all work for accuracy and consistency.
• Prepare agendas, presentations and meeting papers, coordinating printing and timely distribution.
• Chase outstanding papers and ensure fee earners have sufficient preparation time before meetings.
• Submit amendments and formatting requests for bids, pitches and client documents to the Document Management Centre, monitoring progress.
• Source and coordinate updates to fee earner CVs for pitches, meeting Business Development deadlines and completing online submissions where required.
• Coordinate presentations for client training, seminars and conferences through the Document Management Centre to ensure compliance with branding and house style.
• Maintain fee earner CVs on CV Bank and the website, support quarterly reviews and prompt updates following completed deals and cases.

• Work closely with Partners and Associates…