COMMERCIAL COMPETITION SECRETARY

SUMMARY:
COMMERCIAL COMPETITION SECRETARY

SANDTON - EE CANDIDATES PREFERRED

R 500 000 - R 700 000 CTC P/M DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE

POSITION INFO:
Minimum requirements:

• Matric is essential, with a post-matric qualification beneficial
• 10 Plus years experience as a legal secretary
• Excellent knowledge of and technical skills with Microsoft Office Suite programmes (more specifically MS Word 2010), MS Excel essential and PowerPoint essential
• Knowledge of Aderant Expert (CMS) accounting system
• Knowledge of iManage
• Commercial, competition and litigation secretarial experience essential
• Amendments to complex documents (ability to work with track changes, cross-referencing, footnotes, comments, PowerPoint)
• Annotating, highlighting, redacting, collating and compressing large sets of PDF documents
• Preparing, organising and arranging physical and electronic document records
• Retrieving legal texts from electronic databases for inclusion in documents
• Dictaphone and copy-typing of documents
• Preparing resource and client files
• Administering and organising legal practice
• Preparing accounts for clients, posting time on a daily basis, monitoring payments to counsel, monitoring outstanding debtors and trust balances
• Developing and maintaining electronic and physical filing systems and ensuring that the filing system is kept up to date
• Must be well-organised and conscientious
• Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
• Display attention to detail
• Good interpersonal skills
• Maintain confidentiality
• Honesty, reliability and punctuality
• Ability to multi-task
• Takes initiative
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Ability to work independently
• Excellent client relationship skills
• Team player