THE ROLE

This is a Legal Secretary role within our transactional team where you will be providing secretarial and administrative support to the lawyers.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Providing general legal secretarial assistance
• Preparing, editing, formatting and proofing letters and other documents at your supervisor’s request
• Keeping a log of clients who have been billed and chase clients who have not yet made payment (debtor chasing)
• Setting up new matters / clients / e-files.
• Keeping e-files all up-to-date and organised.
• Sending out legal opinions and other documents
• Scanning documents onto e-file for any given matter
• Making appointments and keeping diary at supervisor’s request
• Answering calls and taking messages at supervisor’s request
• Conducting online searches for the purposes of marketing at supervisor’s request
• Keeping record of supervisor’s business contacts
• Carrying out such reasonable duties your supervisor requests
• Booking international travel and hotels for attorneys
• Ensuring that you support the attorneys in administrative and secretarial duties as contained herein to ensure that they can concentrate on fee generating work
• Performing ad-hoc tasks

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE 

• Ideally with 2- 3 years legal secretarial experience in international law firm. 
• Experience in supporting banking and finance team preferred but not essential.
• Good command of English and Chinese language skills
• Familiar with MS office and Chinese word processing
• Excellent communication skills, team player, proactive, well-organised and detail-oriented.

The Firm

Harney Westwood & Riegels (“Harneys”) is a leading offshore law firm. Harneys has offices in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Hong Kong, London and Montevideo.