Legal Secretary recruitment agency listing
A legal secretary provides administrative support to solicitors and other legal executives. Typing letters, creating legal documents, working with dictation notes, answering correspondence from clients, keeping records and attending courts or police cells with their employers are common tasks.
Here we list a number of UK recruitment agencies with particular experience in filling legal secretary positions with legal enterprises and organisations across the country.
Entry requirements
There are no set qualifications for this role, although prospective employers are likely to look for good GCSE grades in English, along with experience in office environments " such as temporary office work, known as temping.
Temping work may be easier to obtain following a course in secretarial studies, computing, typing or audio transcription.
A course specifically in legal secretarial skills may also be of help, although good general administration skills and a working knowledge of the law should suffice.
Most legal secretarial work is full time, 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, but part time and temporary work may also be available. Work is generally carried in the office environment, although some work external work may be done, delivering documents or attending police stations or courts with employers.
Salaries
Depending on location, salaries legal secretarial staff start at between £12,000 and £20,000, climbing to between £20,000 and £30,000 as experience is gained. Those with many qualifications in high profile law firms may earn up to £36,000 per year.
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Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: Nationwide Coverage / UK Wide | Contract, Part Time, Permanent | Salaries £15k - £100k+
About LinkPoint Resources Limited
With more than 20 years' experience placing legal professionals nationally and internationally, LinkPoint is a well-established consultancy specialising in legal recruitment. We work at all levels spanning private practice, commerce and the financial services industry, and our consultants have vast experience recruiting Legal Secretaries, Paralegals, Litigation Assistants and Solicitors.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: UK Nationwide | Contract, Permanent | Salaries £15k - £100k+
About Attic Recruitment Limited
Favoured by legal clients for our personal and bespoke solutions, Attic Recruitment specialise in placing admin personnel into London and South East legal vacancies. We take great pride in our customer service and typically recruit paralegals, secretaries and practice managers for a range of permanent and temporary positions. We hope to build lasting relationships with all of our clients by delivering quality shortlists time and time again.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: London and the South East | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
About Mango Solutions Recruitment Ltd
Multi Award Winning Independent Employment agency established in 2006 specialising in the placement of permanent, contract and temporary staff across the United Kingdom. We operate a corporate and professional practice but with the personal touch. Genuine testimonials. Mango Solutions Recruitment " The Right choice". Continued Growth year on year. Romanian and Spanish speaking recruiters also available upon request
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: Nationwide | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k
Recruiter Tip
Whilst knowledge of basic office software such as Word and Excel is essential to a Legal Secretary, more specialised packages to become familiar with include Eclipse Proclaim, and BigHand Dictate.About Halo Personnel Ltd
We have filled many of these vacancies and can supply client satisfaction forms highlighting our success in doing so.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: UK Wide | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k
About Universal Staffing Solutions Ltd
Universal Staffing Solutions is a specialist recruiter in the heart of Liverpool established in April 2018. Universal strives on helping people and making a difference to others. We aim to deliver a service to support all parties. We want to put an arm around the City
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: UK wide | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
About Berry Recruitment - Office and Professional division
Recruiting expert staff across the Finance, Insurance, Legal, Marketing, Secretarial, Administrative and Consulting sectors, our specialist Commercial Division at Berry Recruitment is a trusted extension of businesses throughout the UK. From SMEs to blue chip nationals, our friendly consultants are committed to delivering unbeatable customer service when supplying personnel for all permanent, temporary or contract Commercial roles.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: UK wide | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
About Birchfield Recruitment Ltd - Permanent Recruitment
Birchfield Recruitment consultancy provide bespoke recruitment solutions to clients who are seeking the very best candidates within their respective field. We focus on providing quality resourcing solutions throughout the UK to clients within Financial Services, Legal, Accountancy, HR, IT and Sales. We work on the basis of under promising and over delivering, never taking on work that we cannot meet within the timescales required.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: Liverpool, Manchester, North West | Contract, Permanent | Salaries from £17k - £100k+
About Unity Resourcing
Recruitment specialists in all office personnel from Sales and Marketing, Administration and Secretarial to Accountancy and Finance. We have extensive market knowledge built up over 15 years and provide a quality, bespoke service. We are committed to listening, understanding your requirements and working with the highest of ethics.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: Yorkshire and Humberside | Contract, Part Time, Permanent | Salaries £15k - £60k
Recruiter Tip
Legal Secretaries are required to produce large quantities of typed works accurately and under pressure - meaning that an employer should look for candidates with a typing speed of around 70 wpm.About RECRUIT.WORK
RECRUIT.WORK are expert recruiters based in the heart of Edinburgh. We specialise in the supply of temporary, permanent and contract workers across a wide range of sectors, such as administration, human resources, management, and retail. We have built a large active database of talented skilled and unskilled candidates that we spend time getting to know, ensuring that we always promote the best candidates to our clients.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: Scotland | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
About Think Specialist Recruitment - HEAD OFFICE RECRUITMENT
A Hertfordshire based Recruitment agency providing Office Support staff - PA/secretarial, administrative & customer service. We supply temporary, contract & permanent staff from entry through to Director level. As a local agency we are keen to develop long term relationships with local clients, providing a professional & cost effective solution. We are delighted to offer exclusive rates to clients registering vacancies via Agency Central.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: Herts, Beds, Bucks, Berks, London | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries from £17k - £100k+
About FAST PACE RECRUIT LTD
Fast Pace Recruit is a London based, nationwide recruitment business with a quality-assured reputation for staffing solutions that result in placing talented people into UK public and private services. From managed service to contingent recruitment methods we deliver our clients value in sectors including; education, healthcare, construction, hospitality, administration, transportation, social care and IT.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: London, South of England, Midlands & Home Counties | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
About Juice Careers
Juice Careers - recruiting excellence in Oxon, Berks, Bucks at all levels, If you are looking for superb staff come and have a no obligation chat with us. We would love to help you find the right fit.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: London & Home Counties | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
About Sellick Partnership
Sellick Partnership provide professional financial and legal recruitment services across a network of seven offices nationwide. We pride ourselves on our integrity, and offer an unrivalled quality of service to our candidates, having built lasting relationships with clients who return to us time and time again.
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: All of the UK | Contract, Part Time, Permanent, Temporary | Salaries £15k - £100k+
Recruiter Tip
The Institute of Legal Secretaries and PAs (ILSPA) and the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx) offer Legal Secretaries Diploma courses, which covers relevant laws, as well as giving participants a breadth of practical knowledge which will be useful in this role.About HRSS Recruitment Specialists
10% Intro fee for new clients. FULL REFUND if candidate leaves within 3 months. HRSS are trusted recruitment specialists with one simple aim: find the right talent with the right skills, personality and ambition for our valued clients. We deliver competitive staffing solutions to UK businesses and cover multiple key markets - including Accounting, Engineering, Human Resources, IT, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Marketing, Pharmaceutical and Sales
Legal Secretary - Legal
Covers: England | Contract, Part Time, Permanent | Salaries £15k - £100k+