Legal Assistant - Conveyancing
Location: Chippenham
My client is recruiting for a Legal Assistant in Conveyancing to join their Chippenham office. They have a culture that values creativity, hard work, individuality, ambition, and fun! They offer competitive pay, fantastic employee benefits, and the opportunity to grow in a thriving, forward thinking environment. This is more than a job; it is a chance to develop new skillsand be an integral part of the firm’s success.
Job Purpose:
To work within the Conveyancing department providing high quality support to enable lawyers to carryout their work and help free up time for them to work on more technical and complex matters. To engage with the team and clients to build and develop strong working relationships and contribute towards making Awdry Law an inspiring and successful place to work.
Typical Activities: Responsibility for: -
- Dealing with client’s matters where appropriate
- Typing of correspondence, filing and opening new files
- Ordering Searches and Land Registry documents
- Preparing files for billing
- Screening incoming calls
- Sorting and prioritising mail, emails and messages
- Dealing with client’s matters where appropriate
- Preparation of straightforward legal documents
- Provision of a professional & friendly service to clients
- Commitment to the LEXCEL standards, the requirements of the Law Society and to understand them.
- Being familiar with the basic requirements of the Solicitors Accounts Rules which affect the receiptand
payment into the bank of cheques and the accounting of client’s monies.
Support with: -
- Liaison with clients and other parties to update and ensure awareness of transactionprocess at the appropriate times.
- To support with reception cover as required
Skills & experience required:
Essential:
- Experience working as a Legal Assistant or similar, ideally within a Conveyancing team
- To have the ability to remain calm, polite, and focused when dealing with different situations
- To have excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- The ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with all employees
- Sound general administrative experience
- Great attention to detail
- To enjoy a varied workload and working at pace
- To be able to produce a high standard of work when under pressure
- The ability to make sound decisions taking ownership when required.
- To present in a professional manner
- To demonstrate flexibility in approach
- To have excellent IT skills including Microsoft packages