Core Responsibilities
* Client Management: Welcoming visitors warmly, verifying appointments, and ensuring a professional, confidential environment.
* Call Handling: Answering, screening, and forwarding phone calls to the appropriate attorney or legal staff with excellent phone etiquette.
* Communications & Mail: Directing the flow of mail, faxes, and courier deliveries. Managing general firm emails and messages in the absence of fee-earners.
* Diary & Meeting Management: Scheduling and confirming appointments, maintaining boardrooms, and setting up telephone or video conferences.
* Office Administration: Assisting with general tasks such as scanning, filing, photocopying, and replenishing office supplies.
Key Skills & Requirements
* Discretion & Confidentiality: Must understand legal ethics and strictly protect sensitive client information.
* Communication: Clear, polite, and professional verbal and written communication skills.