Relief Legal Secretary

Thomson Geer is a large Australian Corporate law firm with offices in Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth. The firm has 650 partners and staff nationally, and offers a dynamic, friendly and professional work environment. We are passionate about constantly providing value to our clients - their business success is our priority. This focus on client value is a key reason for our success.

The Role

We are currently looking for an enthusiastic experienced full-time legal secretary to join our Brisbane team. The role involves working as relief support across all of our commercial practice areas, working on a variety of tasks including;

• Providing secretarial cover to varied teams
• Liaising with clients and staff
• Preparation of legal documents
• Correspondence (emails, memos and letters)
• Monthly billing
• Managing all electronic documentation
• Diary management
• Opening, maintaining and closing matter files
• Reception cover and support for other corporate services functions as required
• Meeting room and event set up, including organising catering, managing room bookings, stock ordering and ensuring technology needs are met
• Administrative support
• Photocopying, scanning and other tasks, such as binding and collating documents.

Requirements of the role

The successful candidate for this role will:

• Be flexible and adaptable, proactive and able to work unsupervised
• Have a positive attitude and the ability to manage the workflow of multiple fee earners
• Have intermediate-advanced computer skills across the Microsoft suite in particular Word and Powerpoint, working knowledge of Excel, and a typing speed of 60+ wpm
• Have strong verbal and written communication skills
• Have experience using document management and billing/time recording systems (such as FileSite, Expert or similar)
• Have a minimum of two years' experience as a Legal Secretary
• Have strong organisational and file management skills and demonstrate initiative.

What we offer:

At Thomson Geer, developing our staff is crucial, and this role will provide an excellent opportunity to build your reception, administration and customer service skills, whilst working in a team environment that exudes a high performance culture and for a company that recognises and rewards individual and team achievements. Thomson Geer has a "well-being @ work" program encompassing flu vaccinations, skin health checks and an employee assistance program. We also have an active social club and are supportive of flexible working practices.