Commercial Competition Secretary

• Commercial, competition and litigation secretarial experience essential
• Amendments to complex documents (ability to work with track changes, cross-referencing, footnotes, comments, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Annotating, highlighting, redacting, collating and compressing large sets of PDF documents
• Preparing, organising and arranging physical and electronic document records (e.g. merger filings, document discoveries, briefs to counsel, trial bundles, regulatory submissions, RFQs etc.)
• Retrieving legal texts from electronic databases for inclusion in documents
• Dictaphone and copy-typing of documents
• Preparing resource and client files
• Administering and organising legal practice
• Preparing accounts for clients, posting time on a daily basis, monitoring payments to counsel, monitoring outstanding debtors and trust balances
• Developing and maintaining electronic and physical filing systems and ensuring that the filing system is kept up to date

• 10 plus years experience as a legal secretary
• Excellent knowledge of and technical skills with Microsoft Office Suite programmes (more specifically MS Word 2010), MS Excel essential and PowerPoint essential
• Knowledge of Aderant Expert (CMS) accounting system
• Knowledge of iManage
• Matric essential
• Paralegal advantageous
• Very good package on offer

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