Legal Secretary (Wills, Trusts & Probate)

ROLE: Legal Secretary (Wills, Trusts & Probate)

LOCATION: Lincoln

SALARY: Competitive and dependant on experience

HOURS: 09:00 - 17:15, Monday - Friday

BENEFITS:

• 33 days' annual leave, inclusive of bank and other public holidays
• 3% employer pension contribution on whole salary
• Life Assurance scheme at 3x annual salary
• Generous employee sickness allowance
• Client and employee referral schemes (up to £2000)
• 25% discount on some legal services
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP/Cash Plan) offering access to face-to-face counselling, 24/7 telephone and video GP consultations, digital physiotherapy, discounted gym memberships and cashback towards some of your day-to-day healthcare, travel and shopping costs
• Ongoing professional development opportunities
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture
• Social committee and events

ROLE:

Join our dynamic Wills, Trusts & Probate department in Lincoln! We're currently in search of a skilled Legal Secretary to join us on a full-time, permanent basis.

The ideal candidate will have previous legal secretarial experience, along with exceptional audio typing, communication and time management skills. You should excel in a fast paced environment and be able to handle high volumes of work with ease. Given the sensitive nature of our line of work, maintaining confidentiality with discretion and professionalism is imperative.

Apply now to join our enthusiastic team!

ABOUT US:

Despite our size we have a strong sense of community throughout the firm and across departments. We are one of the leading firms of solicitors in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the East Midlands providing a full range of legal services to individuals and businesses. With offices in 18 locations, we require a variety of different people with a wide range of skill sets and backgrounds to add value our organisation and help us provide our award-winning services to our valued clients. We fully embrace diverse characteristics, experiences, and outlooks in the workplace and in the communities in which we practice.

You will be working alongside some of the regions best lawyers, who combine technical knowledge of the law with first class client service. The Family Team recently won the prestigious and fiercely competed Children Law Team of the Year national award at the Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards. The Legal 500 (The Worlds Leading Legal Directory) ranks Sills & Betteridge as a Leading Firm and recognises many of our team in tiers one, two and three our family team achieving the highest accolade of Top Tier status - with several members of the firm as Leading Individuals, Recommended Lawyers and Next Generation Partners.

We are also very proud to be listed in The Lawyer UK 200 law firms, placing the firm among the UKs best performing law firms. We have also been recognised by various organisations for our commitment to creating a great place to work- whether its our outstanding Lexcel audits, our nominations for being an outstanding training contract provider by lawcareers.net, or our award for promoting access to the legal profession by CILEX. But what really matters to us is what our clients think of the service we provide to them and welcome the feedback they regularly leave on our client satisfaction surveys and on online review platforms. We currently have over 3500 online client reviews and our overall rating has never fallen below 4.7 stars. It has been 4.8 for over 3 years.

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