Legal Secretary/assistant

**Legal Secretary/Assistant**

**Residential Property**

**Blackheath**

**Salary negotiable depending upon experience**

My client are seeking an experienced residential conveyancing legal secretary/paralegal to support a team at their offices in Blackheath Village, South East London.

The firm has an excellent reputation and client base and seeks to expand the team to better serve its clients.

**Responsibilities**
- Administrative support to the head of the team
- Audio typing
- Dealing with incoming post
- Providing estimates of costs
- Opening files, including inputting client information, property details, other parties, etc.
- Preparing client care letters, including link to Thirdfort
- Preparing legal documentation such as contract packs, TR1s, SDLT forms and AP1s
- Amending legal documents as instructed
- Maintaining an effective filing system
- Answering telephone calls from estate agents, mortgage lenders, solicitors and clients
- Submitting searches
- Attending clients for the signature of documents

**Requirements**:

- Outstanding time management
- Excellent typing skills (minimum of 70 wpm)
- Knowledge of legal terminology
- Experience with Microsoft Office and an ability to work with legal technology, transcription software, etc.
- Proficiency in English
- Capacity to communicate with a diverse range of people
- A spirit of co-operation and a positive " can-do " attitude
- A willingness to serve client needs with discretion and respect for client confidentiality
- Professional telephone manner and the ability to take messages effectively
- Commitment to the success of the firm.

**The firm/team**
- You are joining a team of 4 people in an office based role working 9 to 5pm.
- Two years’ residential conveyancing experience required
- 20 days’ holiday plus public holidays and Christmas closing.
- Workplace pension.
- Great opportunity to work in really lovely area and receive top class training.
- Possibility of becoming a solicitor or licensed conveyancer once ability and commitment proven.