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The firm
DAC Beachcroft is a leading international legal business with more than 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate.
We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with. Our flexible approach to resourcing enables us to apply the right mix of legal, commercial and process skills to deliver the right outcome at the right price, depending on our clients individual needs. We pride ourselves on measuring our performance against our clients expectations.
Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2012, recognised 121 of our partners and professionals as leading lawyers and we hold with 84 rankings in 34 separate practice areas, 20 of which are number one rankings.
In 2009 we achieved certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and in 2011 we were awarded ISO27001 certification for our information security procedures. We are the largest law firm in the country to obtain a silver Investors in People award. The firm is committed to supporting the communities in which we operate through charitable giving, pro bono work and via structured programmes including those operated by Business in the Community and The Prince's Trust.
For further details on our work and our culture, please visit (web address removed) .
The department
Healthcare and Clinical Risk is a core part of our business and the leading law firm in this field in the UK. Our teams are based in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle and Winchester allowing us to offer truly national coverage to both public and private healthcare clients. The Bristol team serves both local NHS clients and national healthcare providers in the private sector covering all aspects of healthcare related advice and representation
Core responsibilities
The main purpose of this role is to provide an excellent standard of secretarial support to fee earners across the specified practice. You will be expected to prepare correspondence and documents from digital dictation and document bundles for fee earners. You will have responsibility for ensuring all client details are kept up to date. You will assist with incoming billing, cash collection and accounts queries and will contact clients to book meetings. You will be expected to file, archive, photocopy, scan and fax documents as and when required and manage the case management system. There will be an expectation for you to handle confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols
Key skills
You will be qualified to a minimum of 5 GCSEs (including a grade C in English and Maths) or equivalent and you will have worked in a legal environment previously.
A secretarial NVQ / Diploma or equivalent would be beneficial but is not essential. However, you do need to have a typing speed of 65 wpm and have all round IT skills, especially in Microsoft packages.
Being a team player is key to this role with an adaptable approach to work but you must also be able to work independently. You must be able to communuicate clearly and concisely, paying attention to detail whilst meeting competing deadlines.
DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please send your CV via our online application system. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
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