Litigation Support Clerk (Discovery)

Draft, file, track and follow up: that's your week at a litigation law firm in Sasolburg. It's the kind of job where doing the basics well every day gets you noticed.

This post is in Sasolburg (Free State). Please only apply if you can travel there daily. Shifts rotate, so you'll need to be flexible about days and nights.

• Collate and index court bundles and discovery files
• Capture payments and update debtor balances on collection matters
• Collect documents for estates, such as death certificates and bank statements
• Keep personal information in files secure under POPIA
• Handle incoming calls and give clients straightforward progress updates
• Open new matters and do conflict checks on the practice system

• Fast, accurate typing and strong Word formatting
• Discreet with confidential client information
• Matric plus a legal secretary or paralegal qualification
• Experience on legal software such as LegalSuite, AJS or GhostPractice
• Organised under pressure from several attorneys

• NCR debt counsellor course
• Experience with the Master's Office for estates

• Office hours with no weekend work
• Study assistance for LLB or paralegal courses
• Close-to-transport offices in city centres

• Name the legal software and the type of matters you handled in the first lines of your CV.
• Proofread your application twice; law firms treat a single typo as a warning sign for legal admin posts.