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Conveyancing Assistant

Employer
Sellick Partnership (Legal) Limited
Location
England, Cambridgeshire, Cambridge
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
10 Apr 2018
Reference
907521

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Practice area
Conveyancing - residential
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
Newly qualified, 1 year, 2 years, Not applicable
Position
Paralegal, Legal secretary, Legal assistant
Sector
Private practice
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Job Details

Our client delivers the highest standards and strives for excellence for their clients across Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. Through their commitment to developing strong and long-lasting relationships, they have created the foundation of a successful business and achieved many prestigious accolades including Legal 500, Chambers UK, LEXCEL and Investors in People. This firm now has the need to recruit a Conveyancing Assistant to join the Residential Conveyancing team, based at the Cambridge office. The role is a mixture of secretarial and paralegal duties.

Skills Required:

  • Minimum of 18 months residential conveyancing experience
  • Strong secretarial skills
  • Well organised with good IT and Administration skills
  • Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office
  • Have an excellent telephone manner
  • Ability to work under pressure to set deadlines
  • Willingness to work well as part of a busy, friendly team
  • A commitment to providing excellent customer service

Daily Duties:

Secretarial

  • Carrying out a secretarial role to support Fee Earners.
  • Assisting with a broad variety of administrative tasks, from audio typing to filing confidential client correspondence.
  • Having direct client contact, via telephone, email and face to face.
  • Ensuring departmental systems and firm-wide procedures are followed.

Paralegal

  • To manage an agreed caseload
  • To process client's cases on a timely and cost effective basis
  • To collect outstanding disbursements as soon as feasible and to bill promptly
  • Dealing with and logging client enquiries
  • Dealing with email and any other correspondence
  • Dealing with incoming and outgoing post
  • Preparing Stamp Duty Land Tax Returns
  • Preparing applications to the land registry
  • Preparing completion statements
  • To keep technically up to date by training and research
  • To maintain targets for both fees and time recording
  • Adhering to all Lexcel accreditation best practices

In return, this firm offers a competitive salary, a supportive and friendly environment with colleagues who are passionate about what they do.

Company

About Sellick Partnership

Established in 2002, Sellick Partnership is a market-leading professional services recruitment business with seven offices nationwide and more than 100 employees.

We offer a complete legal recruitment service on a nationwide basis within the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Our Legal team are considered one of the best in the country and are highly knowledgeable in their specialist markets.

Our Legal Recruitment Consultants are market specialists and highly experienced in sourcing and placing high-calibre locum, contract and permanent legal professionals across the UK.

We recruit across all areas of law, sourcing and placing candidates in legal jobs such as legal director, legal executive, barristers and solicitors as well as positions at the paralegal level.

For our clients, we offer a tailored approach to recruitment services that is based on the needs of your organisation. We take the time to get to know you and your organisation, and support you at every step of the way to secure high-calibre legal candidates every time.

For our candidates, we regularly partner with legal chambers and specialist legal organisations to hold CPD training events, workshops and seminars to help you keep abreast of industry news and topical issues. These events for legal professionals are a great way of networking and learning new skills that you can use as you progress through your legal career.

With in-depth sector knowledge, an extensive network of clients and high-calibre legal professionals plus an unrivalled name in the market, we are best placed to support your recruitment needs. Get in touch with us today to find out how we can help you.

Manchester: 0161 834 1642

Leeds: 0113 243 9775

London: 0203 997 9255

We specialise in recruiting professionals into a variety of positions on a permanent and temporary basis across the following specialisms: Finance & Accountancy, HR, Procurement, Change & Transformation, ICT & Digital Technology, Actuarial, Wealth & Investment Management, Housing & Property Services and Senior & Executive. To find out more about Sellick Partnership, please visit our website: www.sellickpartnership.co.uk

Company info
Website
Telephone
0161 834 1642
Location
Sellick Partnership
Queens Court
24 Queens Street
 Manchester
Greater Manchester
M2 5HX
GB
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