Team Secretary - Real Estate Transactions - Sheffield

We have an opportunity for an experienced Legal Secretary to join our Sheffield office, providing a high-quality and efficient secretarial service to fee-earners and trainee solicitors in a busy Real Estate Transactions team. Reporting directly to the Secretarial Services Manager, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Preparation of hard and soft copy engrossments and other legal documents
• Copy-typing and digital dictation as required
• Amending and formatting documents
• PDF conversions
• Assisting with weekly/monthly reporting
• Proof reading and quality checking of documents and correspondence
• Working within Excel documents
• Diary and email management for the fee-earners within your team
• Travel arrangements and handling telephone enquiries as and when required
• Processing fee-earner expenses
• Managing workflow to the Document & Design Centre, Print Room etc as required; proactively taking steps to ensure work is returned within required timescales
• Liaison with Finance and other business support teams
• Assisting across other teams when necessary
  
  You will need to be adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach, demonstrating high levels of client care, organisational and time management skills. You will have gained real estate experience within a law firm demonstrating a proactive and enthusiastic approach with high levels of IT literacy, superb attention to detail and the ability to learn new systems quickly.
  
  CMS is a Future Facing firm with more than 80 offices in over 45 countries and 5,800+ lawyers worldwide. We combine deep local market understanding with a global perspective. We are passionate about building strong relationships with our clients, our people, and the communities we work in.
We take a bold, dynamic, and agile approach to ensure our clients are able to face the future with confidence. We are driven by emerging technologies such as generative AI and readily embrace the possibilities it opens up for developing new and better ways of working. Our aim is to inspire, impact and support our clients and our people, helping them to maximize their potential and thrive.


• Competitive basic salary (reviewed annually)
• Generous bonus scheme
• Up to 25 days holiday (rising to 28 days with service)
• Holiday exchange scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Enhanced parental leave
• Reasonable adjustments and accommodation for disabled talent in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.