Legal Secretary - Banking Law

SUMMARY:
Well establish law firm is looking for a Legal Secretary in the Banking Law department to join their team

POSITION INFO:
Minimum requirements:

• Minimum 6 years experience as a Legal Secretary dealing with Banking Litigation

• Receiving instructions, acknowledge receipt of the instruction, perusing the documents received, requesting outstanding documents from client. Conducting CIPC and various Deeds office searches
• Ensuring that you have all the required documents to proceed with each step of the legal process
• Drafting letters, Section 129 notices / Letter of demands / Section 345 notices / Section 69 notices
• Drafting Combined Summons, Particulars of Claim and Notice of Opposition to Mediation / Application for a Case Number
• Drafting Default Judgment Application / Compliance Statement / Date Application / Notice of Set Down
• Drafting Writ of Execution against movables / banks / specific bank account
• Drafting Subpoenas against banks
• Drafting Declaration
• Drafting POA’s / Settlement Agreements / Acknowledgment of Debt
• Drafting Sale in Execution documents, notices, conditions and arranging publications in the local Newspaper and Government Gazette
• Drafting instruction letters to sheriff / correspondent attorneys / tracer / courier for services to be rendered
• Attending any and all queries raised by the client / debtor / sheriff / counsel / correspondent attorneys / tracers / courier / any third parties
• Attending to reporting to client via email or ocs system on progress of each individual file
• Attending to final enrollment of matters in court for hearing, ensuring that the all and the correct documents are uploaded to Court Online and CaseLines for the matter to proceed. Briefing counsel for attendance of the hearing
• Attending brief counsel for any other applications that needs to be prepared
• Liaising between client and debtor for payment arrangements / settlements
• Liaising with sheriff / counsel / correspondent attorneys / tracers / courier for outstanding / amendments of returns, trace reports and update reports
• Generating monthly reports and MI reports to client and submitting the various reports to client
• Generating invoices for fees, disbursements ensuring the information of the invoice is correct and the disbursements’ information is correct and correspondents with the invoices generated. Adding the invoices for fees and disbursements to 4 different spreadsheets. Submitting invoices with a bulk invoice to client for payment
• Receiving statements from sheriff / correspondent attorneys / tracers / counsel attending to posting and payment thereof. Counsel is done by finance and some sheriff’s
• Receiving bulk invoicing paid from client and attending to update various spreadsheets, ensuring that the invoices for disbursements paid by client is paid or attend to payment, if not paid yet