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Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom
About The Role
This is an exciting time to join our market‑leading Residential Development Unit as the team continues to win repeat and new work from its impressive client base of recognised national and regional housebuilders. As a paralegal in our fantastic Leeds‑based team you will enjoy working in a fast‑paced environment supporting senior fee earners together with taking responsibility for your own caseload.
Responsibilities
* Drafting and negotiating ancillary documents to large‑scale transactions
* Negotiating and completing affordable housing transfers and dealing with SDLT and HM Land Registry applications
* Running date rooms and coordinating local and national teams on major due diligence and other projects
* Supporting major projects by managing day‑to‑day tasks and ensuring timely completion
Candidate Attributes
* Excellent commercial acumen
* Great communication skills, both written and verbal
* Commitment to forging strong working relationships with our clients
* Ability and willingness to learn
* Strong attention to detail and ability to identify where they need to seek help or advice from colleagues
* An organised, methodical and proactive approach in managing time, work priorities and deadlines
* A strong team‑working ethic
* Good IT skills, ideally including previous experience of working with a case management system
* Discretion and professionalism at all times
* Calm under pressure and able to operate efficiently in a fast‑paced and demanding working environment
* Ability to proactively chase matters when required and regularly report (externally to the clients and internally for management purposes) to ensure that the client is always updated
* Demonstrate quick response times
Team
We are the leading residential development and urban regeneration legal team in the country acting for 18 of the top 20 UK housebuilders, institutional landowners such as Oxford University and other large‑scale sector participants. We advise over the complete life cycle of new‑build housing from initial heads of terms, acquiring the land, obtaining planning permission, building out the scheme and the sale of the new homes. Schemes range from local developments of 50 new homes up to 20,000 unit green‑field urban extensions and multi‑billion pound urban regeneration schemes in central London. We also advise our PLC clients at group level on national issues such as cladding remediation post‑Grenfell and Competition and Markets Authority investigations. The team, which is over 240 strong and is based in eight of our offices across England, operates within Gateley Plc's Property Platform comprising over 700 lawyers, surveyors, engineers, architects, accountants and support staff who provide a unique cross‑disciplinary service delivery to our wider property client base. Part of the team’s work is the sale of the new homes once built, which total approximately 15,000 plots and £3 billion in revenue each year, handled by the Plot Sales team out of three regional hubs using highly developed IT processes and automation.
Benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around, we offer a competitive remuneration package where you will be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus. In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle‑to‑work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.
Diversity, Inclusion & Well‑Being
We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability or culture. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work‑life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies. We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer, a variety of pre‑employment screening checks will be completed. These can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.
Recruitment Details
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Legal
Industries: Professional Services
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