- Western Cape
- Salary: Market Related (Negotiable)
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Legal
- Benefits: Bonus Training Travel Allowance
- Reference: 2321136
Vacancy Details
Employer: O'CONNELL ATTORNEYS
EXPERIENCED Senior High Court Litigation Secretary needed in a small Law Firm based in Montagu Western Cape. .
Required Skills
- Legal Secretary: 2 to 3 years
Candidate Requirements
- Drafting, formatting, and typing of legal documents (pleadings, notices, affidavits, contracts, and correspondence) from electronic copy.
- Managing High Court and Magistrates’ Court litigation processes, including issuing, serving, and filing of documents on Court Online and Case Lines (Training is available).
- Preparing and indexing briefs, trial bundles, and appeal records for counsel.
- Maintaining and organising both physical and electronic filing systems.
- Diary management, scheduling court dates.
- Liaising professionally with clients, counsel, sheriffs.
- Managing deadlines and ensuring compliance with court rules and procedures.
- Managing client files, including file indexing and proper record-keeping.
- Assisting with general office administration where required.
- Handling billing support, timesheets.
- Confidential record keeping and maintaining client trust.
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