Evening Legal Secretary

Position Title: Evening Legal Secretary

At McCann FitzGerald, we are a group of committed and passionate people who together create the strength of our firm. We combine world-class legal thinking with a human approach, to create advantage and unlock potential for our clients.

We work collaboratively, bringing the best people and teams together to solve complex issues, seize opportunities, and create better outcomes for clients.

The expectations of our clients, the competitive marketplace and our own ambitions have grown consistently over recent years. To ensure that we have the right structures in place to support the achievement of our goals we are currently recruiting for an experienced Evening Legal Secretary to join the Firm. This role is open to both part-time and full-time applicants. Core working hours for this role will be 5:00pm to 12:00am.

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing secretarial and administrative assistance to multiple Partners and to assist them in providing a professional service to the client.

In addition, the Legal Secretary may be asked to cover for other secretaries in their teams/groups and to provide relief assistance within the firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting, amending, preparing correspondence and documentation to a high standard, in accordance with house style and to tight deadlines;
• Editing large scale documents;
• Editing and converting PDF documents;
• Running redlines and processing marked-up documents;
• Scheduling documents;
• Dealing with client queries, ensuring they are handled in a professional, courteous and prompt manner;
• Client invoicing – drafting narratives, preparing reports, and tailoring to client specification through e-billing;
• Maintaining and archiving files – hard and soft copy;
• Dictaphone and copy typing;
• Other secretarial, administrative and ad hoc tasks and projects, as requested.

The successful candidate will have:

• A minimum of 2 years relevant work experience;
• Very strong MS Office skills;
• 65+ wpm typing speed;
• A very high level of accuracy and attention to detail;.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills;
• Ability to exercise sound judgement and decision making;
• Ability to work in pressurised situations and across different time zones; and
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills; the ability to manage a busy workload and meet client needs on a consistent basis.

Applicants must be currently authorised to work in Ireland on a full-time basis. This position does not offer sponsorship for employment visa status or work permit, now or in the future.

Our Offer

Competitive salary

Pension contributions

Life assurance and income protection cover

A great working environment

A lively sports and social club

Applications

To apply for this role, please email [email protected] with your CV.