Assistant Paralegal

2 weeks ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Shakespeare Martineau Full time

Legal Assistant (Residential Conveyancing)

Are you experienced Legal Assistant and interested in developing a great career and looking for a new challenge?

The support and encouragement of a great team behind you and friendly partners who all want to help you thrive
• To provide support to fee earners in delivering a full range of legal services, including but not limited to sales and purchases, re-mortgages and transfers of ownership. The Legal Assistant will work closely with Fee Earners in the day to day running of matters effectively and efficiently, improving client service and compliance where possible.

CQS letters, contract packs, drafting and exchanging of contracts.
• Attending to clients in person and on the phone providing updates, taking messages and assisting where appropriate
• Managing diaries for the team, planning and organising meetings and making travel arrangements
• Audio dictation as required and familiarity with Big Hand for provision of support service to fee earners
• Assisting with accounting and billing
• Previous experience working in a legal assistant role to include an understanding of legal terminology, critical thinking skills and attention to detail
• Efficient and accurate transcription of audio dictation skills
• Computer literacy, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)
• Our residential conveyancing team are a welcoming bunch. The residential conveyancing team act for clients on both new build and private transactions. The team form part of our wealth super-team, part of our wider life and business unit.

As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. 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.

We have hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Stratford-upon-Avon and Sheffield. This role will be predominantly home based with travel as required into Leicester or one of our other West Midlands hubs.

Please note - This role will be based in our hub in Leicester.

Our standard office hours are Monday - Thursday 9.Due to the nature of this role candidates will need to be flexible in terms of working hours; in addition to our standard hours cover will be required during evenings and weekends.

Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.


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