Kennedys is looking for a Legal Secretary to join our Birmingham office. The successful Legal Secretary will provide an efficient, proactive and comprehensive secretarial service to a busy team of fee earners.

Team

Kennedys' professional liability team deal with all areas of professional liability and handle claims of all sizes and complexity, including insurers who underwrite some of the world's largest financial institutions, global law firms, the 'Big Four' accounting firms, as well as insurers who underwrite regional, local and smaller institutions and firms.

Key Responsibilities

• Client onboarding and new matter process.
• Preparation of standard correspondence.
• Thorough diary management arrange meetings and manage changes as and when they arise
• Arrange travel for fee earners and partners both nationally and internationally and process all related expenses
• Build relationships with clients, including responding to clients' specific requests for information and going the extra mile to assist them
• Assist proactively with billing and credit control queries
• Creating electronic court bundles including preparing the index.
• Gathering/sorting documents for bundle.
• Paginating and hyper-linking court bundles
• Submitting court documents via the e-file portal.
• Preparing exhibits to witness statements.
• Cross referencing witness statements.
• Drafting court forms.
• Responding to insolvency practitioners with financial information to assist with preparation of annual reports (the financial information is extracted from elite).
• Client Helplines, tracking and updating workflows.
• Report, and assist in resolving, any IT issues for self, fee earners and partners.

Required Experience

• Previous legal secretarial experience.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Strong team-working skills with the ability to work independently.
• Proficient in MS Office packages. Desirable skillset in Adobe Acrobat, Power PDF/PDF Docs.
• Knowledge of case management systems.
• AI tools e.g. CoPilot.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 3,000 people in 45 offices across 18 countries around the world we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious. Our values are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate diversity, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.