We are looking for a bilingual legal secretary in the Firm’s Luxembourg office to provide secretarial and administrative support to lawyers, other principals and their teams in French and English. This individual will be responsible for preparing documents and correspondence and will assist with the preparation of monthly billing, in addition
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to performing a wide variety of other administrative tasks.
Summary of duties:
- Registering and maintaining the LBR
- Uploading all necessary documentation to the Firm’s e-file platform and monitoring any incoming or returned documents from the regulator
- Uploading all necessary documentation to E-desk
- Coordination of apostille and legalisation requests
- Dealing with incoming calls and organising conference calls
- Handling written and electronic correspondence including responding, forwarding and filing where necessary
- Managing lawyers’ Outlook calendars
- Recording lawyers’ time entries in the Firm's time recording system
- Making travel arrangements and completing travel and expense reports
- Organising and scheduling meetings including reserving rooms, coordinating equipment and ordering food
- Ensuring that all documents are organised, scanned, saved and filed clearly and consistently
- Preparing materials for clients
- Preparing and tracking client billing and financial information
- Updating the CRM system on a regular basis
- Collaborating with the Help Desk to manage IT maintenance for the Luxembourg office
- Ordering office supplies
- Performing any other duties as necessary for the efficient functioning of the Firm Knowledge, skills and abilities
Your Profile :
- Secondary level education required, university studies preferred
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience as legal secretary (in a Luxembourg law firm would be an advantage)
- French and English at a high level of proficiency, native or bilingual (C1/C2) - good knowledge of German and Luxembourgish would be an advantage
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
- High attention to detail and the ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
- Ability to prioritise and coordinate work
- Ability to work productively and cooperatively with employees at all levels
- Ability and willingness to learn new skills
- Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and Outlook