Legal Assistant

3 weeks ago


Witney, United Kingdom Pertemps Didcot Full time

**Legal Assistant/Secretary in Residential Conveyancing**

**Salary**: £20,000 - £31,000 PA
Location: Witney
Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-5.30pm
**About this role**
Pertemps is seeking a legal assistant or legal secretary for a friendly but busy residential conveyancing department in west Oxfordshire. The successful applicant will support a property partner.
This role has arisen due to the retirement of a long-standing employee.
**Key Responsibilities**:

- You will provide full support to the Conveyancing team. This includes:

- Administering filing systems, including opening, closing, storage a retrieval of client files
- Preparing correspondence
- Attending to some clients
- Preparing mail, despatching mail
- Scanning and photocopying paperwork
- The finalisation of post-completion processes

**Additional Responsibilities**:

- You will also carry out other duties and responsibilities as required
- Undertaking task specific roles for the Property partner, including undertaking work for a housing association client
- Preparing contract papers, to include initial file opening on the case management system and the completion of relevant details in standard precedent contracts and leases
- **Requirements**:

- Excellent organisational capability
- Effective prioritisation of tasks
- Ability to work quickly, accurately, to deadlines and under pressure
- Skilled in Microsoft Office suite and other relevant IT platforms
- Strong written communication skills
- A good understanding of client relationship management
- A friendly approachable personality to facilitate the link between lawyers, clients and third parties

**Desirable**:

- Experience within a Legal Secretary or Legal Assistant role



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