Litigation legal secretary

Litigation Legal Secretary

Belfast City Centre

c£28,000-£35,000 negotiable doe, on-site parking plus benefits

About your new company

Signatus are partnering with one of Belfast's most esteemed and long-established solicitors firms, renowned for its commitment to legal excellence and client-focused service in litigation & employment law. With a stellar history of providing top-tier legal solutions, this firm maintains the highest professional standards and have achieved some nationally recognised results for their clients over the years.

Your new role

We are ideally seeking an experienced legal secretary who has worked in a Plaintiff based litigation department before to join a support team of c10 paralegals and legal secretaries. Your role will be to assist the Senior Associate, solicitors and paralegals within the most active department in the firm within a highly successful litigation practice.

As an experienced legal secretary you should be able to provide all legal support necessary to the fee earners to help ensure the smooth progress of client cases to satisfactory outcomes. You will have excellent administrative skills, be a personable team player and have knowledge of civil litigation including personal injury, medical negligence, EL/OL (applicants without this experience but who have worked as a legal secretary in other similar roles will be considered also). Our client is also open to paralegals who have excellent administrative skills and who are looking for a 2-5 year paralegal role in litigation law and who can perform the administrative aspects of the role also.

Why Join Us:

• Career: Opportunity to be a central administrative figure in a highly successful employment law team, doing high quality and highly rewarding work
• Competitive Salary: Salary range is entirely negotiable and highly attractive for the right candidate with the right level of experience. This is a full time on site role but 4 day or part time options may be considered for the right candidate. Standard office hours are Monday to Thursday 9am-5pm. Some flexibility with start and finish times may be considered.
• On-Site Parking: Free 2 x per week
• Company benefits include pension, Death in service payment and health care plans.

How to Apply:

If you are an experienced administrative legal secretary with a litigation law background or an interest in litigation, we will be keen to speak with you. If you have any other legal secretarial experience and want to transition into this area, we will also happily discuss this with our client. Submit your CV to our principal legal consultant Fionntán Gamble LLB and we will be in touch to give you further information.