Trainee Legal Secretary Apprentice
PARIS SMITH LLP · Location to be confirmed
Business administrator (level 3)
As a Trainee Legal Secretary at Paris Smith, you’ll complete an 18-month programme leading to a Legal Secretary role. You’ll receive structured training, gain Business Administration Level 3 and Legal Terminology Level 2 qualifications, and experience a variety of departments, providing insight into areas of law and practice.
The work
Key responsibilities of the role will include:
- Opening a file/closing a file
- Conflict checks
- Compliance - ID - Personal
- Compliance - Company ID, Companies House, Experian
- Audio typing
- Scanning documents
- Emails
- Making appointments/co-ordination of diaries
- Attending to clients in reception and over the telephone
- Land registry portal/searches
- Laser form - various for each department
- Precedent letters, ie Terms of Business Letters/Letters of Authority etc
- Requesting Deeds from storage
- Typing and amending, formatting (including automatic numbering) and drafting documents and reports
- Setting up documents using DocuSign
Training
The Business Administration Level 3 training will take place online with a learner coach once a month throughout the apprenticeship programme. Every three months the apprentice will have a review with the learner coach and workplace mentor.
The apprentice will receive on-the-job training in relation to the secretarial tasks outlined.
Training provider: THE RECALVI ENTERPRISE LTD
What you come out with
At the end of the programme, you will have the opportunity to become a departmental Legal Secretary. Further development would include on- the-job training/training courses relevant to the role.
What they are looking for
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Accountability
Qualifications
- Essential · GCSE English A-C or equivalent
- Essential · GCSE Maths A-C or equivalent
- Essential · A Level any subject A-C or equivalent
Things to consider
We are looking for a candidate with GCSE grade (A-C) or equivalent (English and maths are essential), and A Level grades (A-C) or equivalent. We are also looking for a candidate local to the Southampton office; must be located within a 15-mile radius of SO15 2AE.
Pay extras and benefits
Paris Smith offers a wide range of benefits which are set out on their website.
£18,350 a year
The employer
Paris Smith provides the full range of legal services to businesses, organisations and individuals. Our purpose is to enable our staff, clients and the communities in which we live and work to thrive through positive engagement with legal excellence.