Top Law Firm has a vacancy in the Litigation Department for a litigation secretary with minimum 5 years litigation experience with a reputable Law Firm.
Responsibilities:
- Dictaphone and copy-typing of a wide range of documents
- Typing, formatting and collating of notices and pleadings
- Incorporating amendments to documents and verifying that amendments have been effected correctly
- Attend to issue pleadings, upload pleadings, sort pleadings
- Organize court files on CourtOnline and CaseLines.
- Preparing resource, counsel and client files
- Opening of new matters and liaising with clients regardingthe onboarding of new clients
- Strong administration and organisational skills in order tomanage professionals' practices (diary management,answering telephone calls and tracking messages in theabsence of the professionals)
- General office and personal administration
- Preparing pre-bills and billing memos (sending same toclients)
- Managing debtors and debt collection with the accountsdepartment
- FICA administration: following up to ensure the FICArequirements are complete
- Liaise with clients, counsel, presiding officers, experts andother service providers when instructed to do so byLawyers
- Assisting in preparation of tender submissions andpresentations
Requirements:- Minimum 5 years' experience as a litigation secretary
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word programs (more specifically MS Word 2010 and Excel)
- Knowledge on Aderant Expert (CMS) accounting system
- Knowledge on FileSite
- Sound working knowledge of CourtOnline and CaseLines.
- Experience in High Court litigation (motion proceedings).
- Secretarial diploma/legal secretarial diploma/paralegalqualification (advantageous)
- Matric essential
Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Desired Skills:
- Litigation Secretary
- CMS
- FileSite
