Paralegal

Residential Property Paralegal
Permanent, full time
Based at our Crawley office and at home.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a Residential Property Paralegal to join our team. Ideally you will have the ability to work independently and proven experience of working towards financial targets. You will have previous Paralegal experience and a high standard of interpersonal and communication skills. It is envisaged that this will be a full-time role but we are always willing to consider different working patterns.

Your key duties will be

• to support with a wide range of property work, including but not limited to completion of initial contract packs, drafting sale contracts, submitting stamp duty land tax returns and making applications to the Land Registry for a range of Residential Property clients
• deal with post-completion work - to include dealing with payment of Stamp Duty Land Tax, registration, discharge of mortgage and estate agents fees, service of any relevant notices, taking out any necessary indemnity policies and scheduling of Deeds
• attending client meetings, dealing with legal reporting work and dealing with progress enquiries throughout from clients, estate agents, mortgage brokers/financial advisers and colleagues in other departments.

Skills and experience you will have:

• experience in a similar Paralegal or Legal Secretary position.
• A positive and friendly manner in dealing with clients, referrers and colleagues
• ability to manage your workload and when to request additional input
• ability to provide excellent client service

Key competencies you will need: How we work

• a high degree of initiative and the ability to cope in a demanding environment
• excellent organisational and prioritising skills
• the ability to work in a busy team
• excellent communication skills

How we work

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences, and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

This role will require you to attend different offices from time to time and can encompass some home working.