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Residential Conveyancing Legal Assistant

Sacco Mann
Posted 3 days ago, valid for a month
Location

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland NE19 2BG, England

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Sacco Mann is seeking an experienced Legal Assistant for an award-winning Northeast law firm within their Conveyancing team.
  • Candidates should have previous experience supporting fee earners in residential conveyancing or secretarial roles in a conveyancing department.
  • The role involves assisting with various conveyancing transactions, preparing documentation, and communicating with clients and solicitors.
  • The position offers a salary of £25,000 to £30,000 and requires at least 1-2 years of relevant experience.
  • Benefits include 23 days of holiday, a buy and sell holiday purchase scheme, and life assurance after one year of service.

Sacco Mann are currently working on an exciting opportunity with an award-winning Northeast law firm looking to bring an experienced Legal Assistant to their highly successful Conveyancing team. This role would suit a candidate who are working at legal assistants, or secretaries working within a residential conveyancing department and who are ready for to take a step up.

The Role

You will be assisting fee earners in the team with a broad range of conveyancing transactions. This role allows you to work closer with experienced fee earners and gives you opportunity to learn more about conveyancing.

Key Responsibilities

  • Preparing quotations and opening files
  • Assisting the progress of sale, purchase and remortgage cases
  • Compiling draft contract packs
  • Ordering redemption statements
  • Preparing mortgage reports
  • Liaising with and updating clients, other parties' solicitors and estate agents
  • Using and updating LMS/Lender Exchange/ULS platforms

About You

  • Previous experience of supporting a fee earner with all aspects of conveyancing transactions (or previous secretarial experience within a conveyancing department)
  • Confident communication with a range of clients and persons involved in the transaction/completion processes
  • Driven to develop a long-term career in residential conveyancing

What's in it for you?

  • 23 days holiday, plus additional bank holidays per annum (increasing to 26 days and again after 5 years' service)
  • Buy and Sell Holiday Purchase Scheme
  • Attendance bonus
  • Life Assurance (following 1 years' service)
  • Travel to work schemes
  • Annual Flu Jab and Eyecare Scheme

If you are interested in this Residential Conveyancing Legal Assistant role in Newcastle then please get in touch with Chloe Murphy on to find out more information or if you've a CV to hand, please submit this for review. To hear about other legal opportunities that we have available, please visit our website. Alternatively, if you know anybody who would be suitable for this role then please let them or us know as we offer a reward for successful referral. For full terms, please visit our website.

Please note our advertisements use PQE and salary level purely as a guide. We are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfil the role.

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In order to submit this application, a Reed account will be created for you. As such, in addition to applying for this job, you will be signed up to all Reed’s services as part of the process. By submitting this application, you agree to Reed’s Terms and Conditions and acknowledge that your personal data will be transferred to Reed and processed by them in accordance with their Privacy Policy.