Relief Legal Secretary

Thomsons is a leading national law firm with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra. The firm has approximately 900 partners and staff nationally, and offers a dynamic, friendly and professional work environment. We are passionate about constantly providing value to our clients - their success is our priority. This focus on client value is a key reason for our success. At Thomsons, we are looking for candidates who are client focused, commercially minded, and who work well in a team environment. 
 
 
The Role
 
We are currently looking for an enthusiastic experienced full-time legal secretary to join our Perth team. The role involves working as relief support across all of our commercial practice areas, working on a variety of tasks including;
 

• Providing secretarial cover to varied teams
• Liaising with clients and staff
• Preparation of legal documents
• Correspondence (emails, memos and letters)
• Monthly billing
• Managing all electronic documentation
• Diary management
• Opening, maintaining and closing matter files
• Reception cover and support for other corporate services functions as required
• Meeting room and event set up, including organising catering, managing room bookings, stock ordering and ensuring technology needs are met
• Administrative support
• Photocopying, scanning and other tasks, such as binding and collating documents.

 
Requirements of the role
 
The successful candidate for this role will:
 

• Be flexible and adaptable, proactive and able to work unsupervised
• Have a positive attitude and the ability to manage the workflow of multiple fee earners
• Have intermediate-advanced computer skills across the Microsoft suite in particular Word and Powerpoint, working knowledge of Excel, and a typing speed of 60+ wpm
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills
• Have experience using document management and billing/time recording systems (such as FileSite, Expert or similar)
• Have a minimum of two years' experience as a Legal Secretary
• Have strong organisational and file management skills and demonstrate initiative.

 
Life at Thomsons  
 
As a leading national firm, we offer an opportunity to work with a strong and established client base, genuine growth trajectories, and a variety of benefits including: interesting and challenging pro bono opportunities, flexible working, generous parental leave, flu vaccinations and skin checks annually, study assistance, sophisticated employee assistance program, corporate discounts, variety of social activities including EOFY and end of year functions, sporting teams and much more.             
 
We have a collaborative approach to all we do, based fundamentally on openness, transparency, respect and accountability, so that our team is taken care and we get the best outcomes for our clients.