The Firm

LHD Lawyers are a national leading law firm specialising in personal injury claims and matters that affect every day Australians. We are passionate about driving consistency and operational efficiencies throughout the firm to support our team to provide a leading client service experience. With every action and process we are conscious of our client’s experience and are always addressing opportunities for improving client services and experience.

We pride ourselves on ensuring a positive and successful partnership for both clients and employees and we focus on developing our employees. We nurture and develop our people to help them realise their full potential and aim to craft an employee experience that is unique and meaningful to each employee. Established for 30 years, LHD Lawyers has offices across Australia and continues to grow rapidly

Roles & Responsibilities:

Legal Secretary works within a team, liaises with internal and external stakeholders. They support the team members with a wide variety of administrative functions including but not limited to:

• Drafting correspondences, generating precedent letters
• Scheduling appointments and diary management
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders
• General administrative duties, copying, scanning, sending and saving incoming correspondences and maintaining paper and electronic files
• Identifying legal matters and recognising legal documents
• Responsible for responding to calls and emails (inbound and outbound)
• Working with the team to action daily operational tasks
• Actively assisting the team to ensure efficient work practices are maintained

Core Competencies:

• Highly organised and able to maintain high quality work with a strong attention to detail.
• Sound typing and document drafting skills
• Word processing and data entry skills
• Comfortable using Microsoft Office suite
• Diary management and ability to work to deadlines
• Ability to work autonomously while also collaborating in a team environment
• Ability to prioritise and multi-task with accuracy during busy times
• Highly motivated and effective communication skills including excellent phone etiquette.

Qualifications:

• Experience as a legal secretary/assistant or a similar role
• Excellent foundation of administration/clerical skills
• Demonstrated understanding of commercial matters and procedures