Legal Secretary - Singapore - Office Secretaries

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Singapore

2 weeks ago

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Description

Legal Secretary

Key responsibilities

  • Providing secretarial and administrative support in the practice area as required
  • Assisting with the preparation and formatting of court documents; monitoring court deadlines and schedules
  • Answering and filtering telephone calls: liaising with external and internal clients and their secretaries; dealing with queries and relaying messages
  • Client filing: maintaining electronic client files; archiving including arranging collections and retrievals from the offsite archive company
  • Communication: always maintaining open and appropriate communication lines with internal and external clients to ensure the firm's needs are met; work cohesively with secretaries and admin assistants from other regions
  • Prioritisation: managing and prioritising own workload to ensure work is turned around within agreed deadlines and timeframes
  • Excel Spreadsheet management: input; logging; merging and reporting the data as required
  • Billing: general billing administration process as directed. This may include but is not limited to, preparing, and reviewing draft bills, and associated correspondence
  • Financial Administration: manage time entries; dealing with disbursement bills and processing third party invoices; preparing and processing expenses claim forms and dealing with cheque requisitions
  • Potential to cover receptionist when needed
  • Other related duties as required.

Essential skills and experience

  • Proven legal secretary experience (up to and exceeding 5 years)
  • Ideally a recognised secretarial qualification with good academics
  • Accurate typing (minimum speed 60 wpm)
  • MS Office skills (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
  • Excellent spelling and grammar
  • Knowledge of elitigation filing procedures (an added advantage)
  • Knowledge of legal documents and terminology
  • Attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
  • Ability to prioritise own workload to meet agreed deadlines
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Excellent communication skills
  • High level of initiative and proactivity
  • Ability to be calm and retain a professional attitude under pressure
  • Ability to work independently
  • Flexible and committed
  • Positive attitude
  • Team player.


In addition to any Partner reporting lines, all Legal Support staff report to a Secretarial Team Leader / Legal Support Manager, Asia.


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