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JOB TITLE: PARALEGAL - COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
SALARY: £24,000
HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT: 9:00 am - 5:30 pm, Monday to Friday
BENEFITS: Excellent additional benefits
Are you interested in pursuing a role within a law firm as opposed to a conveyancing firm?
Due to organic growth and ongoing success, our client is seeking a Residential Conveyancing Paralegal to join their team in Manchester City Centre. The successful candidate will provide essential support to Fee Earners, handling sales and purchases and developer plot sales properties while ensuring a high standard of client care. If you are a motivated and organised Paralegal and want to join a busy residential development team and are in the process of studying for your LLM or LPC or if you already possess the qualification, we will welcome your CV.
The role will suit a Paralegal or a Conveyancing Assistant looking to work in a fast-paced and demanding environment on some exciting projects in Manchester and the NW. This is a hands-on role! The successful candidate will need to be organised and efficient and able to work well in a team environment. The role is client-facing, and therefore, the candidate must have excellent written and oral communication skills.
This position also offers the opportunity to join an established and progressive law firm and develop your career with a view to a training contract, depending on your performance. The successful candidate will also benefit from excellent training and development.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
- Assisting a solicitor with caseloads of residential sales and purchases and developer plot sales from instruction by the client to completion with the potential for assisting in purchase and refinance transactions
- Drafting contract packs received from developers/agents and issuing to buyers’ solicitors.
- Reporting regularly to developer clients with progress reports/deadlines.
- Dealing with replies to enquiries under supervision from a solicitor.
- Dealing with exchanges and all pre and post-exchange administration.
- Taking receipt of deposit payments from buyers’ solicitors and dealing with payments out to clients/funders
- Dealing with pre-completion requirements, including drafting financial statements, drafting Practical Completion Notices, dealing with the funder’s enquiries, setting up the file for completion and dealing with post-completion matters.
- Dealing with Part Exchange purchases, including reviewing titles, reporting to clients, raising enquiries and dealing with property due diligence.
In addition to unit sales, there will be opportunities to work on:
- residential sale and purchases
- Refinance matters including investment portfolios and development finance matters.
PERSON SPECIFICATION:
The skills required to undertake the above job description are as follows:-
- Currently pursuing or holding a professional Legal Qualification - LLB, Paralegal, LLM, LPC, SQE, CILEX
- Minimum experience of 12 months - given the commercial nature of the role, previous experience in a commercial paralegal role would be advantageous, but we will consider candidates from a residential background, and full training will be given to the right candidate! Legal background, with a knowledge of the conveyancing process of sales and purchase transactions;
- Exceptional organisational skills to manage workload and understand how to prioritise.
- Good IT skills, i.e. as Word and Outlook;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Ability to work to tight deadlines;
- Self-motivated;
- Ability to work in a planned and organised way, but can multitask
- Knowledge of legal Case Management systems.
Can commute from Manchester, Stockport, Greater Manchester, Sale, Altrincham, Cheshire, Lancashire, Ashton under Lyne, Stretford, Trafford, Bolton, Salford, Urmston, Hyde, Stalybridge
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