Secretary

We are recruiting for a Legal Secretary to join our Scotland Real Estate team in Glasgow.

Your Role

As a Legal Secretary your day to day remit includes:

• Support the team by carrying out all secretarial tasks and help, when necessary, with all administrative tasks. 
• Assisting the fee earners with financial management e.g. disbursements, client balances, dealing with a range of client specific billing requirements. 
• Create the monthly invoices to be issued to the clients.
• Diary management for all fee earners; arranging internal and external appointments and, making arrangements for meetings; booking meetings rooms or external venues as required.
• Proof reading, amending and house styling legal reports and non TLT documents.

Your Skills and Experience

• Previous Scottish Commercial Property experience
• Extensive experience in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel are required.
• Experience in case management systems
• Exceptional prioritising/organisational skills.
• Strong ability to self-manage a large workload in a busy team.
• Confident in delegation of work when necessary. 

Your Team

TLT has one of the UK's largest real estate groups, with a team of over 180, advising on thousands of transactions across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland each year. Clients instruct us for this experience, our depth of expertise and sector know-how. Many of our real estate partners are independently recognised as leading individuals in the field by the legal industry's annual directory rankings. Clients including many in-house lawyers trust us with both 'high profile' and business as usual work. 

In 2020 we won the Scottish Legal Awards Real Estate Year of the Year and in 2021 we were shortlisted in the Scottish Legal Award categories for Lawyer of the Year, Real Estate Team of the Year and, Excellence in Client Care.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2021 we were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year, recognising our incredible success story.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute. 

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance. 
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.

TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate. 

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on HR-Recruitment@TLTsolicitors.com