Residential Property Legal Adviser

4 days ago


Eastbourne, United Kingdom Mayo Wynne Baxter Full time

**Legal Adviser, Residential Property**

**Based at our Eastbourne office and at home**

**Let us introduce ourselves**

Mayo Wynne Baxter has over 170 staff and Partners across our Sussex offices and have been providing advice to the people of Sussex and beyond for over 150 years. We are proud of our heritage and our strong reputation in Sussex, but we have clients based across the globe. You will be joining a firm that prides itself on delivering exceptional service to our clients and to each other, in a friendly and supportive way.

We believe that we are stronger together and that our differences make us strong. We know that we are all more effective and perform at our best when we can completely be ourselves, and that the more diverse perspectives we have, the more we are able to learn, grow and thrive.

We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves, from when and where you work, to how you dress; we focus on outputs.

**Meet the Residential Property team**

Our Property team comprises of 31 fee earners who act for a broad range of clients. Like the rest of the firm, we are pursuing an ambitious growth strategy over the next 3 years having recently joined Ampa - the UK’s leading group of legal and professional services companies.

As a result of this merger, our clients now have access to more than 900 experts across the group. These include new service areas such as planning, cyber security, data protection and risk management, to name a few.

**The opportunity**

This is an exceptional opportunity for an accomplished Residential Property Solicitor. We are looking for someone with ambition and drive to join our team. You are likely to have around 1-4 years PQE (or NQ with Paralegal experience) and enthusiasm to take on a real career opportunity. It is envisaged that this will be a full-time role but we are always willing to consider different working patterns.

**Your key duties will include**
- to handle a wide range of residential property work
- engage with prospective legal clients, produce matter estimates and pre-instruction documentation
- produce written advice to clients and the required legal documents to progress and conclude their matter
- exercise high standards of client care in a professional and pleasant manner at all times
- working with marketing strategies to attract new clients and developing relationships with current clients
- assisting and supervising more junior fee earner/paralegals, delegating appropriate work to paralegals and supporting more senior team members on large complex matters

**Skills and experience you will have**:

- either newly qualified Legal Adviser with Conveyancing Paralegal experience or a minimum of 1 year relevant experience working in Residential Property.
- experience in a wide range of Residential Property work
- ability to manage your workload, knowing when to delegate and when to request additional input, to provide the best client service
- an understanding of clients as our business partners & the importance of knowing what is key for them
- a willingness to engage in business development

**Let us introduce ourselves Key competencies you will need**:

- a high degree of initiative and the ability to cope in a demanding environment
- excellent organisational and prioritising skills
- the ability to work in a busy team
- excellent communication skills

**How we work**

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 offices in Crawley, East Grinstead, Lewes, Brighton, Eastbourne, Seaford and Storrington. This role will require you to attend different offices from time to time and can encompass some home working.

**Equal opportunities



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