Conveyancing Paralegal

**JOB TITLE: CONVEYANCING PARALEGAL - HYBRID**

**SALARY: £23,000**

**HOURS OF WORK: 9am - 5.30pm Monday to Friday**

**BENEFITS: 25+stat holidays - Death in Service Pension + Bonus**

This role offers the opportunity to join an established and progressive law firm. You will also be offered excellent training and development and the opportunity to develop your career with a view to a training contract.

**Main Purpose of the role**:
Reporting directly to a fee earner or fee earners, provide support to him/her and the team as directed

**JOB DESCRIPTION**:

- Assisting a solicitor with caseloads of residential property - Sales, Purchases, re-mortgages, Auctions, New leases, New builds, transfers of equity, Buy to Let, Help to buy, Stair casing from instruction by the client to completion
- Updating solicitors and/or partners in the team on the progression of all matters regularly;
- Drafting and amending relevant documents, i.e. Contracts, Transfer Deeds;
- Undertaking various searches for each property and checking the results of the searches for any adverse information;
- Ordering searches and reviewing search results
- Checking ID’s
- Preparing and collating documents for title packs and reports on title
- Responsible for checking Search results and Mortgage Offers
- Preparing engrossments for contracts and transfers
- Maintain a business diary detailing client appointments and critical dates
- Completing AP’1’s, stamp duty forms, SDLT forms, TR1’s and TA13’s
- Calculating SDLT payments and dealing with HMRC
- Ensuring that requisite documents are signed on completion, i.e. legal charge, declaration of mortgagee(s), transfer deeds;
- Attending to post-completion formalities, undertaking all registrations and dealing with any issues raised as a result;
- Opening and closing files on Case Manager and ensuring that the paper file is also opened or closed;
- Anti-Money Laundering checks to include checking on the firm’s database if already a current client or if new client requesting the relevant identification by sending a letter or telephone call asking for the information;
- Chasing up clients, lenders and other solicitors to ensure the progression of each matter and that deadlines are met by using the electronic diary;
- On occasions, helping the Registrations Department with post-completion of files on all matters in the Commercial Property department;
- Preparing bills and completion statements using the client ledgers on the Case Management System.
- General administration, i.e. photocopying and filing;
**PERSON SPECIFICATION**:
The skills required to undertake the above job description are as follows:

- Minimum experience of 6 months in Property, either Commercial Residential Conveyancing
- Legal background, with a knowledge of the conveyancing process of sales and purchases transactions;
- Good IT skills, i.e. as Word and Outlook;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Good telephone manners;
- Ability to work to tight deadlines;
- Ability to plan and prioritise work;
- Self-motivated;
- Ability to work in a planned and organised way, but has the ability to multitask
- Professional approach
- A knowledge of legal Case Management systems.

Can commute from: Manchester, Stockport, Greater Manchester, Sale, Altrincham, Cheshire, LLancashire, Ashton under Lyne, Stretford, Trafford, Bolton, Salford, Urmston, Hyde, Stalybridge

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