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Legal Secretary Liverpool | Full-Time
I am representing a well-established law firm that is seeking a full-time Legal Secretary to join their Liverpool office.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys supporting a busy legal team and wants to work in a friendly, professional environment.
Position: Legal Secretary
Location: Liverpool
Start Date: As soon as possible
Salary: Up to £26,000 About the Role
You will provide essential administrative and secretarial support to partners, solicitors, and fee earners, ensuring the smooth running of the department.
Your work will include:
- Audio typing and dictation (BigHand experience is ideal)
- Preparing letters, legal documents, bills, and emails
- Managing emailed instructions from fee earners
- Diary management
- Handling telephone calls with professionalism
- Using initiative and working effectively as part of a team
Experience with Proclaim is desirable but not essential.
Who This Role Suits
This role is perfect for a Legal Secretary who is:
- Organised and proactive
- Confident with dictation software
- A strong communicator with a good telephone manner
- Comfortable multitasking in a busy legal environment
- Team-oriented but able to work independently when needed
If youd like to discuss this role, the team, or whether it could be a good fit for you, Id be very happy to talk through the details confidentially.
Please send your up to date CV across to r.davies@clayton-legal.co.uk or call Rebecca on 0151 2301 208 to discuss further. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Liverpool,England
Start: 11/12/2025
Salary / Rate: £23000 - £26000 per annum
Posted: 2025-12-11 20:37:03
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Role: Commercial Property Legal Secretary
Location: Chester
Position: Full Time, permanent
Salary: Up to £30,000
A well-established law firm is seeking a reliable and experienced Commercial Property Legal Secretary to join their busy and supportive team.
This is a full-time, office-based position where the firm can offer flexibility working 1 day working from home after a settling in period.
The Role
You will provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Commercial Property department, ensuring the smooth and efficient running of legal matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Audio and copy typing of legal documents and correspondence
- Preparing, formatting, and amending commercial property documentation
- Managing diaries, booking appointments, and arranging meetings
- Handling client queries in a professional and timely manner
- Maintaining accurate filing systems (physical and electronic)
- Providing general administrative support to fee earners
Requirements
- Must have previous legal secretarial experience, ideally within commercial property
- Strong audio typing skills are essential
- Excellent attention to detail and time management
- Confident using Microsoft Office and legal case management software
- Professional, organised, and able to work both independently and as part of a team
Salary and Benefits
- Salary up to £30,000 depending on experience
- Full-time, permanent, office-based position
- Flexible working hours
- Supportive team environment with opportunities for training and progression
If you have solid legal secretarial experience and strong audio typing skills, we want to hear from you.
Apply today to take the next step in your legal support career.
Send across your up to date CV to Rebecca r.davies@clayton-legal.co.uk or call 0151 2301 208 to discuss further. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Chester,England
Start: 11/12/2025
Salary / Rate: £24000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 2025-12-11 19:51:04
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The Role An established and supportive law firm is seeking a Residential Conveyancing Solicitor with around 3 years PQE to join its busy property team.
This is an excellent opportunity for a confident conveyancer to manage a steady caseload with full administrative and post-completion support.
Key Responsibilities
- Managing a caseload of approximately 25 residential conveyancing files per month
- Handling freehold and leasehold sale and purchase transactions from instruction through to completion
- Liaising with clients, estate agents, lenders, and other third parties
- Drafting and reviewing contracts, title documents, and reports
- Ensuring regulatory compliance and maintaining high service standards
- Providing clear updates and advice throughout the transaction lifecycle
Support Structure You will benefit from a fully supported team environment, including:
- New business team to open and allocate files
- Administrative assistant
- Post-completions department handling registrations and SDLT
- Paralegal assistance with day-to-day file progression
This structure ensures fee earners are able to focus on client service and technical work rather than admin.
Requirements
- Approximately 3 years PQE in residential conveyancing
- Proven ability to manage a full conveyancing caseload
- Strong communication skills and client-focused approach
- Ability to work efficiently and independently within a team-focused department
Benefits
- Competitive salary £30,000 £40,000 depending on experience
- Onsite parking
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + Christmas office closure
- Full secretarial and post-completions support
- Friendly, collaborative working culture
If you are interested in the above Residential Conveyancing Solicitor role, please call Sam Oliver on 0121 368 1833 or forward your most recent CV to s.oliver@clayton-legal.co.uk.
Clayton Legal recruits for law firms and in house departments across the UK.
Our pedigree and service levels give those looking to move in the legal market and law firms looking to recruit a refreshingly different recruitment experience.
You will work with experienced professionals, dedicated to your success.
Take a look at our website www.clayton-legal.co.uk for our latest blogs and legal news and to keep up to date with current vacancies. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Sutton Coldfield,England
Start: 05/12/2025
Salary / Rate: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 2025-12-05 14:28:04
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Farnham, Surrey Competitive Salary + BenefitsAre you an experienced Legal Secretary looking to join a friendly, highly respected Private Client team? Do you take pride in delivering exceptional support and seamless client care? This is a fantastic opportunity to join a thriving law firm with a warm, professional culture and plenty of scope to grow.
A well-established, forward-thinking legal practice is seeking a confident and organised Legal Secretary to support its busy Wills & Inheritance department.
Working closely with fee-earners, you'll play a key role in ensuring the smooth running of day-to-day matters across a varied caseload.
You'll provide high-quality secretarial and administrative support, including audio and copy typing, preparing client documents, managing diaries, handling telephone enquiries and ensuring all files and systems are kept accurate and up to date.
You'll be an important point of contact for clients, helping the team maintain its reputation for outstanding service.Skills & Experience
Previous experience in a legal secretarial role, ideally within Private Client - although strong administrators or secretaries from professional environments will also be considered.
Excellent client care skills and a proactive, team-focused approach.
Strong organisational ability with the confidence to manage multiple tasks.
Good working knowledge of modern IT systems, including digital dictation and case management software.
Experience with Tikit / Partner for Windows (PW4) would be an advantage.
You'll be joining a supportive and growing team that values development, collaboration and high professional standards.
Alongside a competitive salary and benefits package, the firm offers genuine opportunities to progress and build a long-term career within Private Client.
If you're a motivated Legal Secretary looking to take the next step in your career, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now! ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Farnham, England
Start: ASAP
Salary / Rate: Competitive Salary + Career Development
Posted: 2025-12-02 14:19:34
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My client is a well established Legal 500 law firm with a network of offices across the West Midlands.
They are looking to recruit an experienced Conveyancing Legal Secretary/Paralegal to join their successful team based in their Banbury office.
The successful candidate will assist Fee Earners with a range of administrative tasks to support the Conveyancing process.
Your role will be :
- To provide a full administrative and secretarial service within the department to ensure that the work is carried out in an expeditious manner and to meet the standards required by the Company.
- To work in accordance with the Office Manual and to act at all times in an appropriate manner as an employee of a professional practice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Undertake document preparation, typing, administration and secretarial work, following dictations from fee-earners
- Scanning post and allocating to fee earners electronically
- Assist in maintaining client files
- Providing Conveyancing quotes if required
- To progress files through to post-completion, file closing and progressing to archive
- Dealing with client enquiries and queries over the telephone and in person, and providing updates to clients and estate agents
- Update files on the Case Management System, maintain activities in case to ensure timely compliance with deadlines and required actions
- Undertake general administrative tasks
- Attend Department Meetings and Firm Wide Meetings
- Undertake any reasonable instructions made by Directors, Heads of Department, Line Manager or Fee Earners within the limits of this Job Description
Skills and Experience required:
- Experience of working in an administrative role for a law firm
- Strong typing skills and previous experience of following dictations
- Knowledge of Residential Conveyancing processes is desirable, but not essential
- Sound interpersonal skills
- Excellent client care
- Good organisation and administration skills with attention to detail
- Ability to be a team player
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows
- Working knowledge of Case Management Systems would be desirable
- Flexible attitude to work
- Excellent time keeping and organisational skills
- You may be required to work at the other offices of the Firm from time to time be as required by the management
Benefits
- A competitive salary with annual reviews and genuine opportunity to progress
- Flexible and hybrid working options
- Generous holiday entitlement, Holiday buy and sell scheme (on successful completion of probationary period)
- Office closure between Christmas and New Year (1 day of annual leave will be allocated to this).
1pm finish on Christmas Eve when it falls on a normal working day
- A range of other excellent benefits.
If you are interested in the above Private Property Lawyer role, please call Sam Oliver on 0121 368 1833 or forward your most recent CV to s.oliver@clayton-legal.co.uk.
Clayton Legal recruits for law firms and in house departments across the UK.
Our pedigree and service levels give those looking to move in the legal market and law firms looking to recruit a refreshingly different recruitment experience.
You will work with experienced professionals, dedicated to your success.
Take a look at our website www.clayton-legal.co.uk for our latest blogs and legal news and to keep up to date with current vacancies. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Banbury,England
Start: 27/11/2025
Salary / Rate: £25000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 2025-11-27 12:08:04
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Litigation Secretary to join a well-established law firm offering a broad range of legal services to individuals and businesses.
As a Litigation Secretary, you will be providing administrative support to Fee Earners within the personal injury department.
This part-time office-based role offers a competitive salary and benefits working 3 days a week.
You will be responsible for:
* Collaborating with experts, legal counsel, witnesses, and the court
* Drafting correspondence and legal documents via audio transcription and copy typing
* Reviewing documents for precision and correctness
* Calculating case-related expenses for cost updates and invoicing
* Handling telephone communications and relaying messages
* Scheduling appointments, coordinating diaries, and addressing client needs
* Preparing outgoing mail and accompanying documents
* Maintaining strict confidentiality and data security in accordance with GDPR
What we are looking for:
* Previously worked as a Litigation Secretary, Dispute Resolution Secretary, Legal Secretary, Legal Administrator, Legal Assistant, Legal Clerk or in a similar role.
* Must have secretarial experience in Litigation.
* Ideally have experience in personal injury.
* Strong communication skills with an ability to work well within a team.
* Use of Proclaim Case Management system advantageous
Shift timing:
9:00am - 5:15pm (3 days a week)
Apply now for this exceptional Litigation Secretary opportunity to work with a dynamic team and further enhance your career.
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Type: Permanent Location: Chichester, England
Start:
Duration:
Salary / Rate:
Posted: 2025-11-21 16:29:52
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Role: Residential Property Solicitor or Legal Executive
Location: East Cheshire
Hours: (Full-Time or Part-Time)
I am working with a well-established firm who are ideally looking for a qualified Solicitor with 25 years PQE, also welcoming CVs from candidates who may hold conveyancing fee earning experience but not the qualification, to join their Residential Property department on a permanent basis.
The role offers hybrid working (50/50 split), and salary will be dependent on experience and expertise, including an annual performance based annual bonus.
This is an excellent opportunity for a candidate looking to take on and further develop an existing, high-quality caseload.
Role Responsibilities:
- Handling residential sales, purchases and mortgages.
- Advising on related property matters including easements, planning issues, transfers of equity and environmental concerns.
- Some exposure to commercial or agricultural property would be beneficial, though not essential.
- The position is available due to the retirement of a long-standing fee earner.
While not a requirement, a following would be an advantage.
Team & Support:
The successful candidate will work closely with the Director and Head of Property, Andrew Williamson, alongside solicitors Natalie Linehan and Natasha Elston.
The role includes your own office and dedicated secretarial support.
If youd like to discuss the role or firm in more detail, Id be happy to provide further information, call Rebecca on 0151 2301 208 to discuss further information ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Acton,England
Start: 20/11/2025
Salary / Rate: £30000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 2025-11-20 14:59:04
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Im supporting a well-regarded law firm as they look to bring a full-time Office Administrator into their central support team.
This is a role that would suit someone who enjoys being right at the heart of a busy office, working alongside a friendly group who genuinely pull together and look after one another.
To be considered, youll need to have experience working within a professional services environment, ideally in an office-based position where youve spent time speaking with clients or customers over the telephone.
You should be comfortable working with electronic filing systems and confident using Microsoft Office.
If youve previously worked in a law firm and have strong typing skills, that would be a real advantage, but it isnt essential.
What you\'ll be doing
- Answering phone calls politely and helpfully
- Opening and sorting incoming post, then scanning documents to the case management system
- Supporting with outgoing post
- Archiving, filing, and general office organisation
- Offering support to the reception and secretarial teams when needed
- Greeting visitors, offering refreshments, and helping them feel welcome
The firm values people who naturally take a caring, professional approach and someone who truly understands the importance of excellent client service.
The firm places a lot of value on maintaining a caring, professional approach.
They pride themselves on delivering a high standard of service to clients and need someone who understands the importance of making every interaction a positive one.
Its a workplace where attitude matters just as much as experience, and where teamwork and kindness go a long way.
On offer is a competitive salary relative to experience, including the following benefits:
- 25 days holiday
- Private health cover
- Life insurance
- Subsidised gym membership
- Contributory pension
- Attendance bonus
- Annual bonus if the firm reaches its target
- Regular social events and a lively team culture
If you would like a chat about further details, please call Justine @ Clayton Legal on 0161 914 7357 or email your current CV to j.forshaw@clayton-legal.co.uk ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Salford,England
Start: 19/11/2025
Salary / Rate: Competitive
Posted: 2025-11-19 13:23:04
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Office Administrator required to join a large corporate organisation to support diary management, co ordination, secretarial duties and personal assistance or PA support.
Skills
Communication and organisational skills.
Microsoft Office proficiency.
Reliable, proactive, and eager to learn.
No prior experience required, training will be provided.
Responsibilities
Organising internal and external meetings and arranging travel bookings.
Handling emails, phone calls, and general office admin tasks.
Supporting purchasing activities and liaising with suppliers and customers.
Assisting colleagues and managers with day-to-day tasks.
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Type: Permanent Location: Westhill, Scotland
Start: ASAP
Duration: 6 months to permanent
Salary / Rate: £22000 - £30000 Per Annum None
Posted: 2025-11-18 23:22:22
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Role: Commercial Property Legal Secretary
Location: Chester
Position: Full Time, permanent
Salary: Up to £26,000
A well-established law firm is seeking a reliable and experienced Commercial Property Legal Secretary to join their busy and supportive team.
This is a full-time, office-based position where the firm can offer flexibility.
The Role
You will provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to the Commercial Property department, ensuring the smooth and efficient running of legal matters.
Key Responsibilities
- Audio and copy typing of legal documents and correspondence
- Preparing, formatting, and amending commercial property documentation
- Managing diaries, booking appointments, and arranging meetings
- Handling client queries in a professional and timely manner
- Maintaining accurate filing systems (physical and electronic)
- Providing general administrative support to fee earners
Requirements
- Must have previous legal secretarial experience, ideally within commercial property
- Strong audio typing skills are essential
- Excellent attention to detail and time management
- Confident using Microsoft Office and legal case management software
- Professional, organised, and able to work both independently and as part of a team
Salary and Benefits
- Salary up to £25,000 depending on experience
- Full-time, permanent, office-based position
- Flexible working hours
- Supportive team environment with opportunities for training and progression
If you have solid legal secretarial experience and strong audio typing skills, we want to hear from you.
Apply today to take the next step in your legal support career.
Send across your up to date CV to Rebecca r.davies@clayton-legal.co.uk or call 0151 2301 208 to discuss further. ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Chester,England
Start: 13/11/2025
Salary / Rate: £24000 - £26000 per annum
Posted: 2025-11-13 16:26:03
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Are you a recent graduate looking to take your first step into the legal world? A leading law firm in Lancaster is on the lookout for a bright, enthusiastic individual to join their team as a Legal Secretary, supporting across all departments.
The firm believes that graduates bring fresh perspectives, strong communication skills and a natural ability to learn, making them ideal for this varied and rewarding role.
As a Legal Secretary, youll play a key role in helping the team deliver an excellent service to clients.
Youll be involved in all aspects of administrative and secretarial support, working closely with solicitors across different practice areas.
The firm is looking for someone who:
- Is a real team player and enjoys helping others
- Has great IT skills (including touch typing and, ideally, experience with a case management system)
- Has a strong eye for detail and excellent written English
- Is well organised, efficient, and able to manage changing priorities
- Uses their initiative and is flexible in approach
- Is eager to learn, develop, and expand their skills
- Brings enthusiasm and a positive attitude to their work
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a professional environment where youll be supported to grow your career.
Voluntary legal work experience alongside your studies would be a distinct advantage!
If youre a graduate whos confident, organised and ready to start building a future in law, this could be the perfect role for you. Please give Justine a call now on 0161 914 7357 or email your CV to j.forshaw@clayton-legal.co.uk ....Read more...
Type: Permanent Location: Lancaster,England
Start: 12/11/2025
Salary / Rate: £25000 - £28000 per annum
Posted: 2025-11-12 09:34:03
