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Legal Secretary (Join Our Talent Community)DAC Beachcroft • Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, GB
Legal Secretary (Join Our Talent Community)

Legal Secretary (Join Our Talent Community)

DAC Beachcroft • Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, GB
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
  • Quick Apply
Job description

Description

Multiple UK Locations | Hybrid Working

Join us as a Legal Secretary

Join a leading international law firm where Legal Secretaries play a vital role in keeping our teams running smoothly and delivering an exceptional client experience.

We’re continuing to grow across a number of our practice areas and offices, and we’re looking to connect with talented Legal Secretaries through our dedicated hiring programme.

This is a Talent Community, meaning you’ll be considered for multiple upcoming roles through one application - giving you greater visibility, flexibility, and opportunity.

About the role

As a Legal Secretary, you’ll act as a trusted partner to your lawyers - helping to manage workflows, anticipate needs, and ensure that everything runs efficiently behind the scenes.

You’ll work both independently and as part of a wider team, supporting colleagues across different practice areas and building strong working relationships across the business.

Key Responsibilities

Supporting lawyers and managing workflows
  • Acting as a key point of contact - keeping work moving and ensuring deadlines are met
  • Managing inboxes, prioritising communications, and drafting responses where appropriate
  • Preparing and producing high-quality documents, correspondence, and reports
  • Supporting with document production, including digital dictation and formatting
Organisation and coordination
  • Organising case files, maintaining accurate records, and managing document systems
  • Coordinating meetings, diaries, and travel arrangements
  • Preparing and maintaining document bundles and case-related materials
Client and stakeholder engagement
  • Building strong relationships with lawyers, clients, and internal teams
  • Supporting client-related activity, including reports, events, and communications
  • Ensuring client protocols and service standards are consistently met
Financial and matter support
  • Assisting with billing processes, expense submissions, and financial administration
  • Supporting WIP management, disbursements, and finance queries
  • Helping to maintain accurate records and reporting where required
Team and business support
  • Collaborating with colleagues and providing support across teams when needed
  • Contributing to a high-performing, responsive team environment
  • Handling confidential information with care and working within compliance frameworks

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

We’re keen to hear from candidates who bring experience and a proactive, team-focused mindset.

You’ll thrive in this role if you:
  • Have experience in a legal or professional services environment
  • Enjoy working in a fast-paced, collaborative setting
  • Take pride in producing high-quality, accurate work
  • Are confident managing multiple priorities and supporting busy stakeholders
  • Have strong skills in Microsoft Office and document/case management systems
  • Are organised, detail-oriented, and naturally proactive
  • Bring a strong client service focus and a “can-do” attitude

Benefits

Our hiring process: Virtual Interview Days

As part of this Talent Community hiring approach, successful applicants will be invited to attend one of our virtual interview days.

This is designed to give you a better experience and more opportunity to find the right fit.

During the process, you will:
  • Meet with multiple hiring managers across different teams
  • Learn more about our practice areas and working environment
  • Talk through your experience, preferences, and career goals

Following this, we’ll work closely with you to match you to a suitable role based on your skills, interests, and location.

Why apply through our Talent Community?
  • Access multiple opportunities through a single application
  • A more efficient and streamlined recruitment experience
  • Greater visibility of teams, roles, and career pathways
  • Faster consideration as roles become available
Additional information
  • Working pattern: Full-time, hybrid working
  • Level: Suitable for candidates with prior Legal Secretary or comparable professional services experience
  • Locations: Opportunities available across multiple UK offices (Bristol, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Glasgow, etc.)

As a Disability Confident Scheme employer, we’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need any reasonable adjustments at any stage (including the application, assessment or interview process), please contact recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence with the vacancy reference in the subject line, and we’ll be happy to help.
We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).

Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact: recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com or csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com


We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.

At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.
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