Paralegal – Real Estate Residential
Department: Real Estate Residential
Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time
Location: London
Description
To enable us to deliver the right outcomes to our clients, with a commercial edge, we’re looking for a Paralegal to support our Real Estate Residential team’s qualified fee earners on matters such as:
- Freehold and leasehold sales and purchases
- New build properties
- Help to Buy properties
- Shared Ownership properties
- Remortgages
- Builders and Developers
Our Paralegals are responsible for a wide range of general, administrative, and other legal services related tasks, and provide support across the team, meaning exceptional attention to detail is essential and maintaining a very high standard when preparing emails, letters, reports, and responding to information requests is key. This is also a role which provides a great development opportunity for those at the start of their legal career who have aspirations to progress.
Key Responsibilities
- Communicating with clients of the department in a professional and courteous manner, ensuring clients and introducers always receive the best possible service.
- Receiving telephone calls into the department, dealing with straightforward enquiries where possible and directing enquiries where appropriate.
- Making calls to clients and third parties involved in the conveyancing transaction.
- Ordering searches and drafting search reports and mortgage reports under the supervision of a conveyancer.
- Logging post in and responding promptly to requests for updates from clients, estate agents, brokers and introducers, and ensuring introducer portals are updated where necessary.
- Preparing contract packs.
- Ordering documents from HMLR, bankruptcy searches, priority searches and company searches.
- Preparing files for completion.
- Ensuring that the firm’s case management system is fully up to date.
- Using your initiative to progress files where appropriate and raising any issues/concerns to conveyancer with responsibility for the matter.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
We are looking for capable law graduates with experience working within a conveyancing team and strong communication and analytical skills, in addition to:
- Excellent IT skills, particularly with experience in Word, Excel and Outlook.
- A strong team working ethic – providing support where necessary, and knowing when to seek guidance from your colleagues.
- The ability to manage a busy workload, be proactive, and prioritise effectively.
- The skills and confidence to communicate well orally and in writing, including dealing directly with clients when required.
- Excellent customer services skills.
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