Legal Assistant

18 hours ago

Blackburn, United Kingdom Napthens Full time

**Napthens **is a large regional and dynamic legal practice, providing a wide range of services to meet the needs of businesses and individuals.

As a firm with a collection of partners, we are ambitious to grow the business and maintain and enhance our reputation for outstanding relationships. We do this through our firms’ values which are instilled within the life blood of our organization.
- We Understand
- We Collaborate
- We Excel

These values ensure we fulfil our commitment to each other, our clients and ultimately our combined success.

**Napthens Blackburn office** are hiring a Legal Assistant to join our Commercial Property, Real Estate department.

Working closely with our commercial property solicitors you will be required to assist in the day-to-day progression of files, office administration and management of diaries’, calls and internal administration.

**Day to day you will be involved in: -**
- Relationship building with 3rd parties, proactively progressing matters.
- Handling first line client queries.
- Arranging practical aspects relating to case work.
- Taking ownership in the drafting and submissions of Land Registry Applications and Stamp Duty returns, alongside the file handler.
- Undertaking due diligence and research.
- Attending upon clients for administrative matters.
- Attending meetings for note taking.
- Diary management.
- Preparation of complex documentation.
- Preparing client care letters, terms and conditions and ensuring all templates/precedents are up to date.
- Proactively supporting lawyers in file reviews.
- Liaising with Risk and Compliance on Audit.
- Preparing bills and dealing with the financial aspects of the transaction/matter.
- Supporting lawyers in proactively managing WIP and aged debt.
- Assisting with risk and compliance elements associated with case work.
- Updating external websites and portals on matters, as and when required
- Ensuring all file closing procedures are conducted at the end of the transaction and liaising with archiving for file closure.

**Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role**:

- Committed team player
- Detail-orientated approach to your work and have the ability to work under pressure
- Initiative
- Excellent telephone manner
- Effective time management
- Experience gained within a property department as a legal assistant or legal secretary.
- Proven experience of working with a case management system, e.g. Proclaim.
- Working knowledge of property, commercial, residential, conveyancing and or real estate.

NB* Agencies. Please do not send speculative CVs unless you have been instructed to work with us. Thank you.

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