Residential Property Legal Assistant
newbury – £25,000 - £30,000
Residential Conveyancing Legal Assistant , Newbury
My client is a very well known law firm who are looking to strengthen their Property team.
Staff are valued here and you will be supported and encouraged to progress. They create a working environment which brings out the best in their staff.
Staff are valued here and you will be supported and encouraged to progress. They create a working environment which brings out the best in their staff.
The role of the Legal Assistant is to provide conveyancing admin support to fee earner colleagues to allow them to provide quality legal advice and an exceptional conveyancing and secured lending services to their clients
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You will assist fee-earners with managing their caseloads of purchase, sale, remortgage, secured lending and other associated matters for both freehold and leasehold properties. More specifically, the conveyancing tasks you can expect to support fee earners with include, but not limited to:
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You will assist fee-earners with managing their caseloads of purchase, sale, remortgage, secured lending and other associated matters for both freehold and leasehold properties. More specifically, the conveyancing tasks you can expect to support fee earners with include, but not limited to:
- Completing file openings and conducting conflict checks.
- Assisting with compliance procedures.
- Preparing sales packs and liaising with managing agents
- Preparing initial forms.
- Drafting contract documents.
- Completing post-completion processes including Land Registry applications.
- Requesting property searches.
- Preparing letters to clients, banks other solicitors and other third parties.
- Updating spreadsheets and keeping track of statutory dates.
- Liaising closely with clients to keep them up to date on the progress of their matter.
- Ensuring all appropriate documentation is recorded and updated as required.
- Reprographics tasks including photocopying, scanning, binding and printing.
- Dealing with incoming and outgoing post.
- Ensuring that documents and emails are filed to the electronic files; and
- Dealing with payment and invoice processing.
You should have some previous experience within a Conveyancing team whether that be at legal secretary or legal assistant level and have some familiarity with conveyancing searches and documentation and be able to work to timescales.
Benefits include :
Benefits include :
- Hybrid working options
- 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
- Generous and flexible pension schemes.
- Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
- Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside Aviva Digital GP services.
- The firm are very big on supporting the mental health of their staff and have various programmes in place.
Dante Friend is a Senior Recruitment Consultant at Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment, with over 4 years at the company. Having joined in 2011, he now oversees Hampshire, Dorset, and the southwest. Dante provides a highly professional service, recruiting for all levels of firms, from city and large regional to Legal 500 and high street. If Dante weren’t in recruitment, he would be pursuing a career in journalism. One of his goals this year is to buy a Porsche.
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Job Spec:
- Area of Law: Residential Conveyancing
- Type: Solicitor / FILEX
- Salary: £25,000 - £30,000
- Term: Permanent
- Location: newbury
- Reference: 1342495
