Legal Assistant - Residential Property

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Sector: Legal
Role: Assistant
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time

We're a national law firm with a local reach. Our philosophy is 'we're legal and financial experts that care' - something you'll find in the way we work with our clients and how we support our teams. But we're more than just a law firm - we're a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life's ups and downs. Working here you'll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.

We'll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.

An opportunity has arisen for a talented Legal Assistant to join our Residential Property team based from our Newbury office.

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

The role of the Legal Assistant is to provide conveyancing admin support to fee earner colleagues (southern based) to allow them to provide quality legal advice and an exceptional conveyancing and leasehold enfranchisement service to our clients.

You will assist fee-earners with managing their caseloads of purchase, sale, remortgage, leasehold enfranchisement and other associated matters for both freehold and leasehold properties. More specifically, the conveyancing tasks you can expect to support fee earners with include:

1. Completing file openings and conducting conflict checks
2. Preparing sales packs; emailing managing agents and dealing with enquiries
3. Preparing initial protocol forms
4. Drafting contract papers
5. Completing post-completion documents
6. Preparing property search reports
7. Drafting documents including leases, statutory notices and lenders consent
8. Preparing letters to clients, banks, and other solicitors
9. Updating spreadsheets and keeping track of statutory dates
10. Liaising closely with clients to keep them up to date on the progress of their work
11. Ensuring all appropriate documentation is recorded and updated as required
12. Reprographics tasks including photocopying, scanning, binding and printing
13. Managing fee earner diaries and keeping them up to date with appointments, meetings and conference calls
14. Supporting client meetings and events; arranging bookings, catering, issuing invites and distributing papers

About You

We're looking for a Legal Assistant with a personable nature, who has a willingness to get stuck in and wants to join a close-knit team. Our ideal candidate will have the following:

1. The ability to provide excellent customer and client service
2. Good IT skills, specifically high proficiency in all Microsoft Office packages
3. A familiarity with HMLR, SDLT and conveyancing searches and documentation
4. Demonstrable experience providing support to fee earners within the Conveyancing/Residential Property space
5. Demonstrable experience working in an administrative/secretarial capacity, working with strict deadlines in a fast-paced environment

If this sounds like you and you want to join a thriving team hit the apply button below for consideration!

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

1. 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too
2. Generous and flexible pension schemes
3. Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
4. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.

We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.