Job Description

About The Role
The role
An excellent opportunity for a proactive and self-motivated Legal Secretary join our leading Regulatory & Business Defence Team. The role will be based at our Birmingham office. Whilst a regular office presence is required of three days per week, Gateley are fully embracing the new hybrid culture, so a mixture of both home and office working is available. If you are looking for an opportunity to work within a supportive, ambitious, growing and energetic team, and would like to join an award-winning law led professional services business, we would like to hear from you.
The team
Our nationally recognised regulatory and business defence team advises on everything that can result in criminal enforcement for businesses and office holders so there work involves all regulatory disciplines ranging from fatal accidents to fraud and pollution to bribery. At the helm of the national team is Ruth Armstrong - Partner & Head of Regulatory & Business Defence. Ruth is noted as a recognised leader in the field within the Legal 500 and has over 30 years' experience of regulatory and white-collar defence work for businesses and senior office holders.
Our team comprises of a number of experts who advise on high profile investigations for corporate clients. Our clients include any business or office holder who may end up with a criminal conviction arising out of their work and includes: developers and construction businesses; manufacturers; sports clubs; hotels and leisure venues; as well as retail and food manufacturing businesses. The team is close-knit and very supportive. You can expect to collaborate on high profile matters and have the opportunity to work with solicitors, associates, and partners across the department.
The person
The successful candidate will be ambitious and organised with a can-do approach. The role will involve a broad range of tasks, including liaising with colleagues and external parties, proactively organising, and managing diaries and providing wider administrative support to our rapidly growing team. As a new and evolving practice, there is scope to develop and grow the role for the right candidate.
In particular we look for the following attributes:

• General administration - to include compliance tasks as required.
• Producing documents efficiently and accurately under direction of the team.
• Document management - to include proficiency in using Word, Power Point and Excel.
• Diary management, ideally including travel and event booking.
• First class, confident communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Attention to detail.
• Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills, and escalating when required.
• Willing to continually learn and adapt to new procedures.
• Ability to be proactive, take initiative and self-motivate.
• Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines while remaining calm.
• Always demonstrate discretion and maintain absolute confidentiality.
• IT skills - Confident in getting trained and using new IT systems, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, typing, formatting and editing PDF documents.

About You
About Us
The benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.
In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.
We are Gateley
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.
The 'Gateley Story' is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it's the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.
Diversity, inclusion and well being
Diversity, inclusion and well being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.

Skills Required