About this role
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader is looking for a full-time secretary to join our Hong Kong office. The incumbent will be joining a high performing team environment, supporting a group of fee earners, including Partners and Associates.
Key Responsibilities
- Produce drafts of documents from instructions or dictation
- Maintain office systems, including data management and filing
- Enter time to time keeping systems as instructed
- Deal with proper (electronic or otherwise) filing of correspondence and documents, both incoming and outgoing
- Screen phone calls and handle enquiries
- Manage diaries
- Arrange travel, visas and accommodation
- Prepare and handle billing and marketing materials
- Liaise with clients and other colleagues and act as communication bridges between different fee-earners
Skills & Experience
- Solid legal secretarial experience, ideally in a practice related to Merger & Acquisitions (M&A), Equity Capital Markets (ECM), or general commercial transactions at an international or sizeable law firm
- Strong command in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese communication skills, both spoken and written.
- Technology savvy and proficient in formatting legal documents and common work related software such as Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Shows initiative and desire to learn over time
- Exercise care in handling work and in complying with instructions
- Personable, proactive, trustworthy, responsible and reliable
- Integrity and discretion when handling confidential information
- Effective organisational and time management skills; with the ability to juggle the needs of various fee earners, manage expectations and multi-task
- Able to work under pressure, with the ability to solve and/or raise problems or issues in a timely manner
- Works well in a team environment