Job Description

About Gilson Gray

Gilson Gray's Real Estate team is part of Gilson Gray's continually growing organisation. Gilson Gray LLP is a comprehensive law firm, offering expert legal, property, and financial services. We support clients throughout their entire lifetime. The Real Estate team has decades of experience and can advise on every Real Estate-related query.

Based in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dundee, North Berwick, Lincoln, and London. We focus on ensuring we provide the highest level of advice and ongoing service to our clients. We are ambitious and have significantly grown the team over the last year. We pride ourselves on looking after our clients personally and providing the utmost standard of service.

This role will be held in our Glasgow office.

Our Team

We are looking to hire a highly driven Legal Secretary to join our successful Real Estate department in Glasgow.

We are an enthusiastic team that supports each other to achieve a great working environment. We value each other's expertise and opinion and pride ourselves on offering an inclusive, enjoyable, and motivating place to work.

The Role

We are looking to further strengthen our current team with the appointment of an experienced candidate.

As a Legal Secretary at Gilson Gray, you'll be responsible for:

Liaising with internal and external clients by email, telephone and face to face.

Opening and closing client files.

Carrying out client identity checks.

Preparing and amending documents.

Dictation and audio typing.

Assisting with general administrative duties.

Diary management.

Required Knowledge and Experience

Previous experience in a property or administration role is preferred.

Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and work deadlines.

Good written and oral communication skills

You will have the ability to develop strong working relationships within the team as well as communicate concisely both verbally and in writing both internal and external clients

A calm, helpful and professional approach

IT competent, particularly with reference to the use of Word and Excel

Our ideal candidate would also

Ability to work as part of a large team and contribute to the overall business aims.

A proactive forward-thinking approach is required.

The ideal candidate must possess strong organisational and problem-solving skills.

Strong willingness to progress within the firm.

Benefits

A competitive salary with annual review and potential bonus award depending upon performance

32 days holiday a year (includes bank holidays)

Birthday day off

3 x Death in Service benefits

Membership of an occupational pension scheme

Wellbeing initiatives and opportunity to access online Health Provider

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

Company events Company pension Health & wellbeing programme Referral programme
Experience:

Legal Secretaries: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Glasgow G2 2HG