The Role

McCann FitzGerald is a premier corporate law firm, employing over 600 people. We currently have an opportunity for a Legal Secretary.

Responsibilities include:

• Secretarial support to fee-earners as required, ensuring that documentation and correspondence are produced to a high standard, in accordance with houses style and to tight deadlines.
• Billing: drafting narratives from Work In Progress Reports [Aderant Expert] and computing figures. Follow-up with relevant Fee Earners to ensure all time is captured. Processing signed off bills with Accounts.
• Assisting with weekly time entry on Aderant Expert for Fee Earners.
• Preparation of Transaction bills to clients’ specifications.
• Dealing with telephone queries and ensuring that such queries are handled in a professional, courteous and prompt manner.
• Organising travel arrangements.
• Ensuring electronic and hard copy filing is up to date.
• Suggesting improvements/amendments to systems and procedures.
• Other secretarial and administrative tasks and ad hoc projects as requested.

Experience, Knowledge & Skills:

The successful candidate will have-

• A few years of experience as a Legal Secretary;
• Strong Microsoft Office skills;
• Excellent numerical skills and attention to detail;
• A high degree of discretion and the ability to work with sensitive and confidential data;
• Good time management skills, the ability to manage a busy workload and meet required deadlines;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively in a professional manner with all levels of the business;
• A positive attitude, the ability to take ownership and responsibility for the completion of tasks and the ability to take and demonstrate initiative;
• Minimum 65 wpm.

Education

Leaving Certificate and preferably a Secretarial Course or Legal Course