Legal Secretary - Disputes

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic full-time legal secretary to join our Sydney office within our Disputes team.

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 full-time legal secretary to join our Sydney office within our Disputes team.  We are looking for someone who is proactive, capable and motivated to work autonomously and within a successful team. 
 
This role will involve:

• liaising with clients and staff via phone and email
• preparation and drafting of legal documents
• correspondence in respect of emails, letters and internal memos
• collating court documents and generating bundles
• billing
• financial assistance of practice
• diary management
• opening, maintaining and closing electronic files

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

• proactive and comfortable working unsupervised
• able to work within a team of secretaries supporting the Disputes practice
• intermediate to advanced computer skills across the Microsoft Office suite, particularly Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook
• exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• experience using document management (FileSite or similar)
• experience with billing systems (Aderant Expert or similar)
• strong organisational and file management skills
• a minimum of three years' experience as a Legal Secretary

 
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.