Legal Assistant Commercial Property

Overview

Our client has a full-time vacancy for a Legal Assistant to provide an efficient support service to Solicitors within the Commercial Property department.

• Joining a busy and friendly commercial property team
• Opening new files, sending initial letters to clients, and obtaining money on account
• Undertaking anti‑money laundering searches and completing compliance documentation accordingly
• General administration duties such as filing, sending faxes, emails, and closing files
• Undertaking searches
• Completion of SDLT and other forms at the direction of a solicitor
• Completion of accounts paperwork for monies received and monies out
• Typing
• Taking telephone calls from clients, agents and third‑party solicitors and providing appropriate updates where necessary
• Assisting with the paperwork/processes for completion
• Sending post‑completion letters to relevant parties
• Assisting with general office administration, including reception on a rota basis

• Previous conveyancing experience – either residential or commercial
• Good typing/keyboard skills
• Background working in a property department – either residential or commercial
• Familiar with general processes relating to property transactions and terminology used
• Confident and capable when meeting clients face to face who drop into the office from time to time to collect or deliver paperwork
• Confident telephone manner
• Good organisational and administration skills