Residential Legal Assistant, Evesham

Full Time office based Monday to Friday 9:00AM – 5:15PM

Salary will be dependant on experience.

The successful Conveyancing Assistant will work alongside an experienced fee earner in a busy conveyancing environment. You will assist on a full and varied caseload of freehold/leasehold sales and purchase, remortgage, transfers of equity, right to buy and shared ownership schemes from start to finish.

Responsibilities include:

• Dealing with queries raised by clients, solicitors, lenders and estate agents, whether face to face, by telephone or by email.
• Making detailed attendance notes of all correspondence
• Opening and closing files on our CMS
• Ensuring files on CMS are updated with all correspondence.
• Applying GDPR and SRA regulations, following Lexcel and firm procedures.
• Administrative support (including photocopying and scanning etc)
• Preparing quotes to clients
• Drafting completion statements
• Requesting mortgage redemption figures and mortgage advances
• Assist Fee Earner in preparing report on title, report on mortgage and search report for clients
• Issuing sale contracts
• Replying to sales enquiries on freehold and leasehold properties
• Ordering searches online
• Setting up completions
• Post completion admin
• Drafting AP1s
• Using Land Registry portal to submit registration applications, reply to requisitions
• Generate Stamp Duty Land Tax calculations and submit applications
• Preparing and submitting invoices, receipts and payments to the finance team
• Occasional reception cover

Please call Anna Ramage on 0161 641 2443 for more info.