Legal Secretary

We’re seeking a proactive and professional Legal Secretary to provide high-level administrative and secretarial support to our Court of Protection and Personal Injury Trust team. 

About Us

Wrigleys is a well-established, reputable firm of specialist Solicitors. We have offices in Leeds, Sheffield, and Newcastle. We represent clients across the UK and are considered as one of the leading expert practices outside of London. At Wrigleys we pride ourselves on delivering specialist legal services to our clients within a professional yet friendly and authentic environment.

Our culture is built on our purpose of putting people at the centre of what we do, and our values guide us in all aspects of our work with clients and each other. Together with our supportive leadership team, we offer a collegiate culture where everyone has a voice, and we encourage collaboration, innovation, and growth.

This positive environment helps us maintain exceptional colleague retention levels.

What We Can Offer You

Life outside work matters. We promote work-life balance, offer agile working, and prioritise colleague wellbeing. Your health and happiness are important to us.

• Competitive salaries
• Agile Working
• Enhanced Family Friendly Benefits
• Generous holiday entitlement and holiday purchase scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Pension scheme
• Life Assurance scheme
• Group Income Protection
• Employee Wellness Initiatives
• Private Medical Insurance

About the Role

Duties and Responsibilities:

• To provide full secretarial support to include word processing, regular and accurate filing, archiving, faxing, emailing, photocopying.
• Confident handling of telephone enquiries, diary and meeting coordination, travel arrangements, and expense claims.
• Use of Microsoft Office, Outlook, Teams, and legal software including Aderant, Big Hand, Liberate, iManage, and Oyez.
• Drafting routine documents and correspondence.
• Maintain and update filing systems, both electronic and paper-based and in compliance with Lexcel guidance.
• To maintain time recording on all client matters and to arrange for the chargeable time recorded to be put into the firm's computerised time recording system daily.
• Acting as a first point of contact for clients and third parties with professionalism and discretion.
• Supporting colleagues through holiday/sickness cover and contributing to a collaborative team environment.

The Ideal Candidate

To be considered for this role you must have a minimum of 2 years secretarial experience within professional services.

You must also be proficient in Microsoft applications such as Teams, Word and Excel.

Additional skills and attributes:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively at all levels
• High level of accuracy, attention to detail
• Competent numeric skills including a basic understanding of accounts and billing.
• Able to use own initiative and take responsibility for a task to ensure that work is completed to a high standard (to include developing and introducing efficiencies and more effective ways of working).
• Highly organised, able to prioritise, anticipate, plan-ahead and problem solve.
• Adaptable, willing and capable of working flexibly and as part of a team.

Application Process

Our selection process for the Legal Secretary position is transparent. We prioritise keeping all candidates informed at every step, ensuring there is no uncertainty.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition and need us to make adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please do let us know by contacting our recruitment team.

Equality and Diversity

Individual differences are embraced at Wrigleys, and by putting people at the centre of we do, we strive to create an inclusive working environment in which colleagues feel supported and can be themselves.