Team Secretary - Real Estate Transactions - Sheffield

 Team Secretary - Real Estate Transactions

About CMS

CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 70 offices in over 40 countries and 5,000+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.

We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by technology and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working.  Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.

About the Role

We have an opportunity for an experienced Legal Secretary to join our Sheffield office, providing a high-quality and efficient secretarial service to fee-earners and trainee solicitors in a busy Real Estate Transactions team. Reporting directly to the Secretarial Services Manager, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

•    Preparation of hard and soft copy engrossments and other legal documents
•    Copy-typing and digital dictation as required
•    Amending and formatting documents
•    PDF conversions
•    Assisting with weekly/monthly reporting
•    Proof reading and quality checking of documents and correspondence
•    Working within Excel documents
•    Diary and email management for the fee-earners within your team
•    Travel arrangements and handling telephone enquiries as and when required
•    Processing fee-earner expenses 
•    Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
•    Liaison with Finance and other business support teams
•    Assisting across other teams when necessary

About You

You will need to be adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach, demonstrating high levels of client care, organisational and time management skills. You will have gained real estate experience within a law firm demonstrating a proactive and enthusiastic approach with high levels of IT literacy, superb attention to detail and the ability to learn new systems quickly.

Equal Opportunities

At CMS, a next-generation mindset is woven into all we do. We're diverse, supportive and inclusive, embracing our corporate social responsibility and creating a culture of sustainability in which every one of our people, whatever their background, can maximise their potential and thrive. For further information about CMS' diversity initiatives and programmes, please view the Diversity & Inclusion pages on our website.

Please apply online or contact a member of the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions. For information regarding our competitive range of benefits please visit our Rewards & Benefits page on our website.

Please note that CMS have a preferred agency panel in place. Only applications submitted via the portal at the point of instruction will be accepted.

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