Conveyancing Assistant / Paralegal
Deal, Kent
From £23,000 -£25,000 + benefits
Permanent, Full Time - Office Based (9am-5.30pm Mon – Thurs and 9am-5.00pm Fri)

Benefits:

• Work for a highly respected legal practice
• Free Permit Parking
• Pension Scheme

Have you gained some previous experience as a Legal Assistant with some conveyancing experience?

We are working with a client in Deal who are looking for a Conveyancing Assistant/Paralegal for their Conveyancing Team (Residential and Commercial).


As a Paralegal/Conveyancing Assistant in the Property department, your role is to provide support to the team of fee earners.

Duties and responsibilities

• Provide a full secretarial service to fee earners, co-ordinating all fee earner workloads and prioritising as required
• Assisting on a mixed caseload of commercial and residential property transactions.
• Opening files and new matters and preparing client care letters
• Audio typing from digital dictation ensuring that all correspondence/documents are carried out to the highest standard and in line with the Judge Sykes Frixou house-style.
• Experience in using the Land Registry Portal – requesting office copies, submitting registration etc
• Prepare SDLT forms
• Preparing completion statements
• Deal with post-exchange and post-completion formalities
• Closing and archiving completed files.

Person Specification

• Strong academics;
• Able to work in a team and willing to assist others and prioritising the needs of the team.
• Previous relevant experience within residential and commercial conveyancing
• Excellent time management and organisational skills ensuring consistency across the team with the ability to think ahead and prioritise workload and to manage changing circumstances and work under pressure to meet deadlines.
• Great attention to detail
• Excellent IT skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Office packages, and digital dictation systems.

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