Legal Secretary - Employment, Dublin

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft Dublin is looking to recruit a Legal Secretary to work within our Employment Team.

If you are interested in working in an energetic and dynamic environment where you will learn new skills and progress, you should apply.  Not only do we provide an outstanding client experience, but we work hard at providing a welcoming, encouraging, supportive and inclusive environment.

Role Responsibility

• Prepare correspondence and documents from digital dictation
• Preparing briefs and submissions
• Creating, amending and formatting legal documents and templates with a high degree of accuracy
• File management, including electronic filing, scanning, photocopying and archiving
• Arranging meetings/consultations
• Diary management
• Assist with expense claims
• Booking of meeting rooms
• Occasional reception cover

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience of working as a Legal Secretary is essential
• Strong dictation experience
• A minimum of 60 wpm
• Experience preparing e-briefs and booklets
• Proficient use of Microsoft Word, Excel
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential
• Excellent administration skills
• Ability to work on one's own initiative
• Excellent organisational skills
• Ability to prioritise
• Ability to multi-task and work to strict deadlines
• Team orientated and collaborative with a flexible attitude
• Professional telephone manner and excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• A positive and helpful attitude

Package Description

Benefits

• 24 days annual leave (increasing with service)
• Personal Retirement Savings Account (PRSA)
• Private Medical Insurance
• Group Life Assurance Scheme
• Income Protection Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible Benefits
• Bike to Work
• Dublin Tax Saver Commuter Scheme
• Flu Vaccination

About the Company

Our culture and approach

If you are planning to apply to DAC Beachcroft, we want you to understand why we are here and how we work together: these things are expressed in our purpose and vision, underpinned by our cultural principles, strategy and brand.

Our purpose is to help our clients and our colleagues succeed, creating sustainable value.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work.

We work collaboratively across our teams and encourage cross-team working so that we can use our expertise to find creative solutions for our clients. 

Our team members are encouraged to develop their own client contacts and relationships from the start of their career with us.  We are proud of our client base, who provide us with repeat business and top-quality instructions.  We also have the backing of a truly international firm further bolstering our capabilities.

We encourage diversity and our relationship with our colleagues is underpinned by our employer brand “A Life That Works”.  Our teams work hard, but we offer genuine flexibility to allow you to meet your personal and work commitments through our Flex Forward initiative. 

We are also a diverse organisation and we continue to strive to be more so, through extensive colleague networks. Our culture and inclusivity underpins an impressive legal pedigree.

About the firm

The Dublin Employment Team is part of our firm’s Global group and part of the wider DAC Beachcroft Employment Pensions and Immigration group. 

DAC Beachcroft Ireland has over 80 employees and is continuing to grow. We are a full service law firm with a diverse domestic and international client base.  We are part of DAC Beachcroft LLP, an international law firm comprising in excess of 2,500 staff and benefiting from the depth and reach of a legal network with coverage across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and North America. Our clients benefit from the management and quality systems of a truly international law firm.

We are constantly developing our international pedigree, whilst maintaining a strong domestic focus, allowing us to service all our clients to the highest possible standard.

DAC Beachcroft Dublin holds certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and ISO27001, the information security standard and in 2013 achieved the Gold Investors in People award.

Application Details

We hope that you will decide to make an application to join us and look forward to discussing how DAC Beachcroft can help you on your career path and how you can help us to continue making our firm a success.

DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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