Residential Paralegal / Assistant
- Employer
- Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
- Location
- Ware
- Salary
- £20000 - £26000 per annum
- Closing date
- 11 Nov 2021
- Reference
- J65792
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- Practice area
- Conveyancing - residential
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- PQE
- Newly qualified
- Position
- Paralegal, Legal assistant
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
WARE, HERTS
£20K - £26K
Douglas Scott is currently looking for a Conveyancing Paralegal / Assistant to join our highly-regarded Legal 500 client and their successful residential property team in Ware, Herts.
In this role, you will be directly assisting fee earners with the below:
- Sending estimates, TOBs and sale packs to client
- Dealing with file openings including AML checks and ensuring all information is inputted into case management system (Liberate) and ensuring monies paid on account
- Obtaining office copy entries and issuing contracts
- Requesting leasehold packs and redemption statements
- Liaising with housing association (if shared ownership) and estate agents
- Dealing with files from pre-exchange through to post-completion
- Reviewing the file and ensuring all signed documents held, any documents required to remove charge(s) on property received
- Exchanging contracts and dealing with the relevant post-exchange requirements
- Preparing completion statements and apportionment statements (if leasehold)
- Ensuring verbal confirmation of account details are obtained before sending funds
- File closure – ensuring certified copies of original documents saved to file and closure of file on Liberate, ensuring the client account is cleared and no outstanding disbursements/fees
- Recording any retentions post-completion and diarising dates for release of funds to client
- Reviewing file pre-exchange using checklists, ensuring mortgage funds requested from lender, Land Registry searches obtained, lawyer check
- Updating LMS/Lender Exchange
The ideal candidate will:
- Friendly & helpful team player
- Well organised with ability to prioritise workload
- Proficient use of Microsoft Office packages
- Good telephone manner
- Good client care skills
If this sounds like a role you can fulfill then get in touch with our consultant Leah via email at leah@douglas-scott.co.uk, by directly calling on 0203 846 3071 or by applying to this role!
Company
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment are multi-award winning legal recruitment experts.
Our business – put simply – is to remove the pain points candidates may otherwise experience on their journeys.
Sure, we act for legal professionals of all levels making lateral moves, taking steps up the ladder or looking for contract legal opportunities.
And yes we can boast a network of connections that spans nationwide private practice, the UK’s in house legal departments and now the Middle East, Asia and the Far East.
But we are the only REC and APSCO affiliated legal recruitment specialist with an ISO9001 accredited quality management system and the Investors In People Gold Standard award.
And by externally validating our day to day activities in the wider business community we have been able to place customer experience at the heart of our business proposition.
Which means people like dealing with our team – a very experienced, settled and happy bunch they epitomise the Douglas Scott brand personality and will demonstrate a genuine interest in you and your career.
- Website
- http://www.douglas-scott.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0161 233 6360
- Location
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Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
No1 Spinningfields
1 Hardman Square, Spinningfields
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3EB
GB
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