COMMERCIAL COMPETITION SECRETARY - - Sandton

Minimum requirements:

Matric essential
Paralegal advantageous
10+ 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
Commercial, competition and litigation secretarial experience essential
Amendments to complex documents (ability to work with track changes, cross-referencing, footnotes, comments, PowerPoint, )
Annotating, highlighting, redacting, collating and compressing large sets of PDF documents
Preparing, organising and arranging physical and electronic document records
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
Developing and maintaining electronic and physical filing systems
Must be well-organised and conscientious
Strong communication skills (verbal and written)
Display attention to detail
Good interpersonal skills
Maintain confidentiality
Honesty, reliability and punctuality
Ability to multi-task
Takes initiative
Ability to work well under pressure
Ability to work independently
Excellent client relationship skills
Team player