Personal Injury Legal Secretary

  • Ashville Knight
  • Guildford, Surrey
  • Jan 29, 2026
Full time Legal

Job Description

A highly respected Surrey-based law firm is seeking an experienced and proactive Legal Secretary to join their Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence team. This is an excellent opportunity to support busy fee earners within a friendly, professional, and well-established firm.

The Role

You will provide high-quality secretarial and administrative support, ensuring the smooth day-to-day running of the department. The role requires strong organisation, confidence when dealing with clients, and the ability to take initiative while managing a varied workload.

Key Responsibilities

  • Providing full secretarial support, including audio typing, to produce documents such as letters, attendance notes, briefs and bills in a timely manner.
  • Diary management and general administrative support to fee earners.
  • Maintaining accurate and up-to-date client files (both electronic and paper).
  • Liaising professionally with clients, colleagues and third parties by phone and in person.
  • Ensuring a consistently high level of client care and attention to detail.

Desired Skills

  • Have previous legal secretarial experience ideally within PI / Clinical Negligence.
  • At least 2 years experience.
  • IT literate and experience audio typing.
  • Experience in MS Word, Excel and Outlook.
  • Experience using case management systems.

What they offer

  • Monday Friday 9am 5pm and office based.
  • Salary depending on experience - £25,000 - £31,000.
  • 25 Days holiday and an extra day of for your birthday.
  • Private health scheme.