Solicitor - Residential Conveyancing

Our Private Client group is based across our Uxbridge, Beaconsfield, and Ascot Offices. The Group Head for Private Client is Shital Mehta. The head of the Residential Conveyancing Team is Gary Bunce.

The Private Client group is recognised as a regional heavyweight and includes a Family, Estate, Planning, and a High Net Work Residential Property team all of which are headed by partners.

Job Purpose

Working within a team of residential conveyancers and solicitors, you will be focussing primarily on residential freehold and leasehold sales, purchases, re-mortgages and transfer of equity transactions.

In time, you will also deal with more complex transactions such as sales and purchases of part with some non-residential use, sales of development land, matrimonial transactions, charity matters, estate planning, probate and trust residential property work and other matters that may be delegated by the partner.

Principal Responsibilities

Provide a high-quality legal service to clients including:

• Managing transactions from start to finish including (but not limited to) reviewing, preparing and collating legal and title deed documentation in respect of any transaction or approving these when drafted by a Legal Administrator or generated by AI and liaising with the clients, law firms and third parties such as estate agents as required.
• Liaising with the client and keeping them fully updated throughout the transaction.
• Drafting contracts, leases, bespoke transfers, property information in relation to any transaction.
• Dealing with complex matters and enquiries raised by the buyer’s solicitors on non-standard matters.
• Reporting to clients on Contract and other legal documentation.
• Attending or overseeing to exchange of contracts, completion and post completion registrations/formalities and file closure procedures including the release of any undertakings given.
• Conducting legal research where applicable.

Person Specification

Qualifications

You will be a Solicitor, Chartered Legal Executive or Licensed Conveyancer with strong experience of non-routine transactions.

Skills and Experiences

• A minimum of 2 years (indicative) residential conveyancing experience together with sound technical knowledge in residential property law.
• At ease and confident working on your own caseload and acting on a transaction from start to finish.
• Experience of delegating work and managing monitoring systems with the ability to provide supervision and support.
• IT literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint and self-sufficient in using document management systems and the internet as a business tool.
• Able to take a flexible approach and work to tight deadlines whilst maintaining the highest quality standards and attention to detail.
• Experience of working under CQS scheme (desirable)