Onsite Legal Practice Coordinator

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About the role

  • Legal Practice Coordinator in Auckland, supporting Real Estate team at Dentons. Managing diaries, legal documents, client meetings, and billing processes.

Responsibilities

  • Provide effective and professional team support and coordination across a wide range of needs from managing partners’ diaries to typing legal documents and assisting with compliance matters
  • Liaising directly with clients to organise meetings and events and communicate with them on administrative and certain file matters
  • Taking charge of the team’s monthly billing process and managing certain client engagement requirements such as file status reports
  • Assisting team authors with settlements and property transactions

Requirements

  • A proactive approach to your work with the ability to show initiative and work on tasks unprompted whilst anticipating the needs of the team
  • Impeccable time management and ability to prioritise workflow to meet deadlines
  • Highly tuned administration skills
  • High standards of professionalism, including communication, accuracy and attention to detail
  • Strong team mentality, skilled at fostering and building internal and external relationships
  • The ability to maintain confidentiality and commercial sensitivity
  • Diploma in legal secretary studies or other tertiary degree
  • At least three years’ experience in a similar secretary or assistant role.
  • At least twelve months’ experience as legal secretary, ideally in a property/real estate team and experience completing monthly billing
  • Previous experience and proficiency using Landonline, PPSR and ADSL
  • A confident user of the Microsoft Office suite

Benefits

  • $500 wellness payment annually to spend how you please
  • Additional leave over the Christmas and New Year period
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Lifestyle leave – ability to purchase additional leave each year
  • Paid parental leave of 26 weeks/5 weeks for non-primary caregiver
  • Paid parental leave top up to full salary payment for 26 weeks for the primary caregiver
  • Regular social events, including Morning Teas, Friday Fives, sporting and charity events, annual balls, family Christmas parties, and an end of year function
  • Dedicated wellness programme
  • Pro bono opportunities

Job title

Legal Practice Coordinator

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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