Position: Legal Secretary (Japanese Speaking)
Location: London (Office base)
Salary: around GBP 30K (Negotiable)
Responsibilities:
Secretary & Admin Duties
-Meeting room booking & Schedule coordination
-Setting up projectors, screens, monitors, etc
-Printing and filing of documents as instructed by lawyers
-Receiving and taking emergency calls to lawyers
-International telephone requests from visitors
-Invoicing, managing expenses
-Arranging restaurants for clients, tickets and hotels
-Other admin duties and managing the office/facilities
-File documents in a binder and label them according to the manual so that the contents can be identified
-Website publication (articles, books, seminars, awards, case information, etc.)
-Arrangements for congratulatory telegrams, flowers and gifts for clients' inaugurations/retirements
Law Related Duties:
-Conflict search (check for internal conflicts regarding the case)
-Litigation (3E)
-Client registration
-Proofreading of case documents (= called proofs) as instructed by lawyers
-Document translation
-Advisory fees, directors' remuneration and secondment compensation reimbursement
-Billing for start-up fees, deposits, court deposits, court prepayments and insolvency cases
-Processing of outsourcing fees.
-Handling of unclaimed expenses
-Domestic & Overseas remittances
-Court-appointed defence correspondence
Requirements:
-Japanese full fluency, English Business level
-Previous experienced in law firms
-Has right to work in UK
-Accurate, co-operative and resourceful person