Paralegal - Real Estate Residential

Department: Real Estate Residential

Employment Type: Permanent
- Full Time

Location: London

To enable us to deliver the right outcomes to our clients, with a commercial edge, we're looking for a Paralegal to support our Real Estate Residential team's qualified fee earners on matters such as:

• Freehold and leasehold sales and purchases
• New build properties
• Help to Buy properties
• Shared Ownership properties
• Remortgages
• Builders and Developers

Our Paralegals are responsible for a wide range of general, administrative, and other legal services related tasks, and provide support across the team, meaning exceptional attention to detail is essential and maintaining a very high standard when preparing emails, letters, reports, and responding to information requests is key. This is also a role which provides a great development opportunity for those at the start of their legal career who have aspirations to progress.

• Communicating with clients of the department in a professional and courteous manner, ensuring clients and introducers always receive the best possible service.
• Receiving telephone calls into the department, dealing with straightforward enquiries where possible and directing enquiries where appropriate.
• Making calls to clients and third parties involved in the conveyancing transaction.
• Ordering searches and drafting search reports and mortgage reports under the supervision of a conveyancer.
• Logging post in and responding promptly to requests for updates from clients, estate agents, brokers and introducers, and ensuring introducer portals are updated where necessary.
• Preparing contract packs.
• Ordering documents from HMLR, bankruptcy searches, priority searches and company searches.
• Preparing files for completion.
• Ensuring that the firm's case management system is fully up to date.
• Using your initiative to progress files where appropriate and raising any issues/concerns to conveyancer with responsibility for the matter.

We are looking for capable law graduates with experience working within a conveyancing team and strong communication and analytical skills, in addition to:

• Excellent IT skills, particularly with experience in Word, Excel and Outlook.
• A strong team working ethic - providing support where necessary, and knowing when to seek guidance from your colleagues.
• The ability to manage a busy workload, be proactive, and prioritise effectively.
• The skills and confidence to communicate well orally and in writing, including dealing directly with clients when required.
• Excellent customer services skills.