Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
The role of the Legal Assistant is to provide conveyancing admin support to fee earner colleagues (southern based) to allow them to provide quality legal advice and an exceptional conveyancing and secured lending services to our clients.
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:
1. Completing file openings and conducting conflict checks.
2. Assisting with compliance procedures.
3. Preparing sales packs and liaising with managing agents
4. Preparing initial forms.
5. Drafting contract documents.
6. Completing post-completion processes including Land Registry applications.
7. Requesting property searches.
8. Preparing letters to clients, banks other solicitors and other third parties.
9. Updating spreadsheets and keeping track of statutory dates.
10. Liaising closely with clients to keep them up to date on the progress of their matter.
11. Ensuring all appropriate documentation is recorded and updated as required.
12. Reprographics tasks including photocopying, scanning, binding and printing.
13. Dealing with incoming and outgoing post.
14. Ensuring that documents and emails are filed to the electronic files; and
15. Dealing with payment and invoice processing.
About You
We're looking for a Legal Assistant with a personable nature, who has a willingness to get stuck in and wants to join a close knit team. Our ideal candidate will have the following:
16. Demonstrable experience providing support to fee earners within the Conveyancing/Residential Property space
17. Demonstrable experience working in an administrative/secretarial capacity, working with strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment
18. A familiarity with HMLR, SDLT and conveyancing searches and documentation
19. The ability to provide excellent customer and client service
20. Good IT skills, specifically high proficiency in all Microsoft Office packages
Please also note that the role entails working five days per week on site in Newbury during the probation period for training and will then revert to a hybrid working model upon successful completion of probation.
If this sounds like you and you want to join a thriving team hit the apply button below for consideration
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
21. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
22. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
23. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
24. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.