Legal Secretary - Real Estate - Aberdeen

We are looking for a Legal Secretary to join our Real Estate team in Aberdeen to provide a high-quality and efficient secretarial service to Partners, fee-earners and trainee solicitors. Reporting directly to the Office Manager, your focus will be on efficiently managing your own workload and being proactive with the ability to work on your own initiative. Tasks include, but are not limited to:

• Diary management using own initiative to arrange meetings and calls and liaising with other secretaries/external clients
• Comprehensive e-mail management - checking, prioritising and summarising e-mails on a daily basis and dealing with correspondence where necessary
• Collating documentation for meetings and circulating agendas in advance
• Making travel arrangements as required and preparing itineraries
• Booking video/calls, meeting rooms and required refreshments, and lunch and dinner reservations
• Booking attendance at conferences/seminars (including national and international travel) and organising trip itineraries and logistics
• Dealing with all aspects of client and matter opening and dealing with client and matter maintenance matters
• Taking a proactive approach to building relationships with clients and their secretaries in a professional manner
• Organisation of any team socials and other events as may be required
  
  We will invest in your ongoing training and development to support your professional goals and help you to thrive in your role from day one. Our opportunities are open to all suitably qualified applicants, so to be considered for this role, you must meet the following skills and experience:
You will need to be adaptable to change whilst maintaining a professional approach, demonstrating high levels of client care, organisational and time management skills. Ideally, you will have previous experience of working within a busy corporate environment, preferably in the legal sector (with real estate experience) 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)
• Flexible, hybrid working policy
• 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.