Conveyancing Assistant

**My client is searching for a Conveyancing Assistant to join their Otely, Leeds offices.**

This role will require someone capable of taking specific steps in residential property matters. This will be a transactional role, where responsibility will lie with the solicitor in charge who will delegate tasks as required. These will include file opening,searching, and various steps pre and post completion.

**Main Duties**:

- To act as assistant to a single fee earner in the conveyancing department.

**Other Duties include**:

- Typing from digital dictation (Voicepower DPA), quickly and accurately and prioritising where required and/or noted
- Correcting the fee earner’s obvious mistakes and checking where in any doubt
- Composing and producing routine correspondence and documents using the firm’s Case Management System (P4W TFB) and assisting in ongoing developments of that system
- Opening new files and matters and send out fee estimate letters
- Scan client ID & other documents and update the matter file
- Send out Property searches
- Obtain documents from Land Registry, office copy entries
- Complete registration post completion with Land Registry
- File SDLT return and arrange payment of SDLT tax
- File any deeds and document in storage accurately
- Assisting with the workload of others in the conveyancing team where time allows and/or priorities and/or holiday periods require