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Conveyancing Assistants

3 months ago

Loughton, Shropshire, United Kingdom Attwaters Jameson Hill Full time

Job type:
Full-time

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Salary: Dependent on qualifications and experience

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Seniority:Assistant

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Department: Residential Property

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Office: 1 x to be based in Ware, 1 x to be based in Loughton

Are you looking to advance your legal career whilst enjoying a healthy work/life balance? Do you want to join a firm that is as interested in your career progression as you are? Are you searching for a fulfilling role where what you get out is considered just as important as what you put in? And where the only ceiling is your ambition?

Then Attwaters Jameson Hill could be the firm for you.


With five offices spanning Hertfordshire, Essex and London, Attwaters Jameson Hill is a respected regional law firm with origins dating back well over a century.

Our vision is to be the 'go to' private wealth legal practice in our region, through our commitment to excellent client care, integrity, teamwork, innovation, quality and respect.

In order to achieve our vision, we need people who are committed to excellence.

We are experts at what we do and we're looking for people with the ambition, dedication and work ethic required to become leaders in their field.

But we also know that our people have a right to expect excellence from us.

That's why we are dedicated to providing our staff with a nurturing environment, a structured career path that offers clear opportunities for progression, and all the support they need to thrive.


The role:

We are looking for two bright, enthusiastic Conveyancing Assistants to join our busy Residential Property teams in Ware and Loughton

Responsibilities will include:
Sales

  • Sending estimates, TOBs and sale packs to client
  • Dealing with file openings including AML checks and ensuring all information is inputted into case management system (Liberate) and ensuring monies paid on account
  • Obtaining office copy entries and issuing contracts
  • Requesting leasehold packs and redemption statements
  • Liaising with housing association (if shared ownership)
  • Liaising with estate agents
  • Dealing with files from preexchange through to postcompletion
  • Reviewing the file and ensuring all signed documents held, any documents required to remove charge(s) on property received
  • Exchanging contracts and dealing with the relevant postexchange requirements
  • Preparing completion statements and apportionment statements (if leasehold)
  • Completing sending monies to client postcompletion, ensuring mortgages redeemed and any outstanding service charge accounts cleared (relevant to leasehold properties), paying estate agents
  • Ensuring verbal confirmation of account details are obtained before sending funds
  • File closure ensuring certified copies of original documents saved to file and closure of file on Liberate, ensuring the client account is cleared and no outstanding disbursements/fees
  • Recording any retentions postcompletion and diarising dates for release of funds to client
  • General administrative duties
  • Carrying out cabinet checks monthly
  • Daily issuing disbursement only bills via Liberate
  • Answering the residential phone line/fee earner's line if unavailable and responding to any new enquiries and drafting quotations
  • Obtaining indemnity policy quotations and policies if required
  • Ensuring files are closed regularly and sent to deeds storage
  • Covering reception duties as and when required
  • Ensuring each file has a checklist confirming the stage of the transaction and what remains outstanding and ensuring the checklist is regularly updated (in the event the file needs to be covered in absence by another assistant/fee earner)
  • Updating lender portals
Purchases

  • Sending estimates, TOBs and sale packs to client
  • Dealing with file openings including AML checks and ensuring all information is inputted into case management system (Liberate) and ensuring monies paid on account
  • Reviewing source of funds and ensuring they satisfy our AML requirements
  • Requesting contract papers from seller's solicitors
  • Liaising with estate agent's
  • Calculating stamp duty land tax liability and familiarity with the rules (i.e. higher rate payers, first time buyers, standard rate, etc)
  • Requesting searches via InfoTrack
  • Liaising with housing association (if shared ownership)
  • Regularly reviewing LMS and Lender Exchange saving any new mortgage offers/amendments to offers to fee earner's case on Liberate
  • Reviewing file preexchange using checklists, ensuring mortgage funds requested from lender, Land Registry searches obtained, lawyer checks
  • Liaising with mortgage lender to ensure fund release
  • Checking if retentions agreed/recording the same within our retention spreadsheet
  • Reviewing up to date proof of funds preexchange
  • Exchanging contracts
  • Ensuring verbal confirmation of account details are obtained before sending funds
  • Preparing completion statements, requesting apportionment statements (if necessary)
  • Ensuring accounts are correct and ledger