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Legal Secretary – Care Department, Huddersfield
Join our Care team
Ridley & Hall Solicitors is looking for an experienced Legal Secretary to provide essential secretarial and administrative support to our busy Care Department.
This role requires an organised and proactive individual who can manage competing priorities, communicate professionally with clients and external organisations, and maintain high standards of confidentiality and client care.
About the role
As a Legal Secretary in the Care Department, you will support fee earners with the day-to-day management of their caseloads. Your responsibilities will include producing legal documents, handling correspondence, maintaining accurate case records and helping clients with enquiries.
You will also use specialist legal systems and platforms, including CCMS, CivApply, the HMCTS court portal, BigHand and BundleDocs.
Your responsibilities
Your work will include:
- Typing court documents, emails, file notes and other legal documentation
- Saving and time recording emails
- Preparing Legal Aid applications through CCMS and CivApply
- Working with the HMCTS court portal
- Opening files on the case management system
- Answering telephone calls and assisting clients with enquiries
- Liaising with clients and professionals to arrange appointments and meetings
- Managing incoming emails and post, and responding where appropriate
- Completing digital dictation using BigHand
- Keeping the case management database up to date
- Ensuring files are fully time recorded for billing
- Preparing bundles using BundleDocs
- Updating the experts’ register
- Assisting other fee earners within the team
- Providing cover for other legal secretaries when required
- Maintaining confidentiality and the security of client and firm information
- Building effective working relationships with external institutions and organisations
- Undertaking other reasonable tasks according to the needs of the firm
About you
To be considered for this Legal Secretary position, you should have:
- Previous experience working as a Legal Secretary or PA within a Care Department at a firm of solicitors, or other similar experience
- A professional telephone manner
- Good typing skills
- Experience using digital dictation
- Strong organisational skills
- The ability to prioritise work for different fee earners
- A proactive approach and the confidence to use your initiative
- The motivation and willingness to take on new tasks
- An efficient and professional approach to your work
- A commitment to providing high standards of client care
Why join Ridley & Hall?
Joining Ridley & Hall Solicitors means you will benefit from:
- A competitive salary and benefits package
- High-quality and varied commercial litigation work
- Genuine opportunities for career progression
- Ongoing professional development and support
- A friendly and supportive working environment
- Flexible and hybrid working arrangements
- The opportunity to play an active role in the continued growth of the team and firm
- 25 days’ holiday plus statutory holidays
- Additional holiday for long service
- An extra day’s holiday for your birthday or two half-day Life Admin Days
- Health scheme
- Pension
- Christmas party get-togethers
Equal opportunities
Ridley & Hall Solicitors is an equal opportunities employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against because of race, colour, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, or any other consideration prohibited by law.
Apply for this role
To apply for this position, please submit your CV and supporting information using the application method provided on this page.