Overview

Job title: Secretary

Department: Family

Location: Edinburgh & Glasgow

Working hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday (35 hours per week)

Reporting to: Family Partners

Job Type: Permanent

Closing date: Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and interviews held on a rolling basis.

Your responsibilities

A new opportunity for an experienced secretary with relevant experience, to join our Family department across Edinburgh and Glasgow. This role involves working in a fast paced environment to provide support to fee earners within our Family team. The role would suit someone who enjoys working in a busy city centre office and delivering excellent customer service via telephone and email. Daily tasks and duties include: 

  • Timely and accurate completion of varied documentation and correspondence
  • Prompt and courteous handling of external and internal telephone calls
  • Assisting fee earners with administration and filing tasks
  • Proving overall support to the department and Firm in delivering excellent client care

About us

At Lindsays, we're a full-service law firm with a strong reputation for helping individuals, families, businesses, and charities navigate life’s opportunities and challenges with confidence and trust. From our offices across Scotland, our team combines expertise with a commitment to care and consideration, guiding our clients through the moments in life that matter most. With strong residential property and private client departments, we also have an expanding range of corporate and commercial services, encompassing company law, corporate finance, intellectual property, technology, employment, charity law, rural property, commercial property and construction, all of which enjoy an excellent reputation in the marketplace. With 56 Partners and over 300 staff, our goal is to have the right staff with the right skills to ensure we best advise and support our clients. We are committed to investing in our people and believe in helping our staff succeed.

Diversity and inclusion

Diversity and inclusion play an integral part in the people strategy at Lindsays. We are committed to creating a supportive and inclusive environment where our people feel valued and can reach their full potential.

Equal opportunities

Lindsays is committed to achieving a working environment which provides equality of opportunity and freedom from unlawful discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, pregnancy and maternity, marital or civil partnership status, gender reassignment, disability, religion or beliefs, age or sexual orientation. For information on our Candidate Privacy Notice, please click here.NO AGENCIES PLEASE

Rewards and benefits

Generous holiday allowance

30 days annual leave, and 9 fixed public holidays.

Flexible holiday options

Holiday purchase scheme to top up your annual allowance.

Support for life events

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay entitlements, plus contractual sick pay.

Financial security

Pension scheme to support your future.

Protection for your family

Death in Service Benefit.

Help when you need it

Discounted legal fees and access to a travel loan scheme.

Investing in you

Career development support to help you grow and progress.

Healthcare scheme

Access to online GP appts, counselling and health & wellbeing resources.

Discounted gym memberships

Discounted gym memberships for all employees.

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Why work at Lindsays?

No matter your career stage or role, when you work at Lindsays, you’ll be part of a firm where talent is nurtured, careers are developed, and a healthy work-life balance is encouraged.

We offer a positive culture, varied work, and competitive benefits. And we support our people to achieve their goals.

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Life at Lindsays

Life at Lindsays is rewarding. And we don’t just mean the benefits package or the work.

Our culture is welcoming and supportive, and as one of our early-stage solicitors put it, ‘Everyone wants you to succeed’.

Life at Lindsays

We encourage all applicants

We value the fact that our people bring different experiences, backgrounds and lives outside of work into their legal careers, and we actively support non-traditional routes into law.
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