Legal Assistant

7 months ago


Valley, United Kingdom Harrison Clark Rickerbys Legal LLP Full time

**About The Role**:
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We are currently looking for a well organised Legal Assistant with good attention to detail to join our Wye Valley residential conveyancing Team, based in our Wye Valley office. Joining our residential conveyancing team gives you access to a career pathway as a Licensed Conveyancer via the CLC qualification. Individuals can enroll on the Level 4 CLC apprenticeship and if successful progress onto the Level 6 CLC apprenticeship whilst in a fee earning conveyancing role. Accessing these qualifications requires a minimum of 12 months service and a career development plan with a sponsoring partner.

This team deals with mostly local sales, purchases and transfers on behalf of existing and new clients. The team does not deal with volume panel conveyancing and instead receives recommendations from existing clients and other departments within the firm.

Reporting to a Conveyancer you will provide efficient legal administration to the fee earners and other colleagues within the team.

**Duties of the Legal Assistant**:

- Prepare and issue sale contracts
- Assist with conveyancing completions including the financial documents
- Conduct searches (Local Authority, Land Registry, Lawyer search, Insolvency, Compliance regulation)
- Take telephone calls and field enquiries as appropriate
- Prepare new matter quotes as outlined by the fee earner
- First point of contact for administrative and business support requirements for fee
- earners
- File opening and closing using the firm’s case management system (SOS)
- Photocopying, scanning and other administrative duties
- Collate client AML documentation for review by the fee-earner
- Lexel compliance and reviews
- Prepare exchange and completion letters
- Deal with post completion formalities and registration at the Land Registry
- Keep the matter file up to date on the case management system

**About You**:
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Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, Zoom, etc. is required for this position as well as being competent in communicating concisely and accurately.

**About Us**:
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**Benefits of working with us as a Paralegal**:

- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
- Support staff bonus scheme
- 27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Life Assurance
- 1/3 gym membership contribution
Flu vaccinations**Is HCR the smart move for you?**

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

**Why HCR people love their jobs**

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

**What career progression will HCR offer you?**

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

**What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?**

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

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