Conveyancing Legal Assistant

2 weeks ago

Preston, United Kingdom Birchall Blackburn Law Full time

Working within our Residential Conveyancing team you will support a file handler in their varied caseload from instruction through to completion and registration. You will be responsible for ensuring you maintain ongoing high performance and deliver a quality, client focused operation.
You are responsible for meeting the financial targets that are set and to ensure the delivery of excellent, added value client service, which continually exceeds client expectations.
**Responsibilities and Duties**
**Client Management**
- Maintain and build good professional working relationships with clients, external institutions and organisations
- Develop and improve client service standards, adopting a total customer care culture throughout your team

**Technical Responsibilities**
- Issuing Sale Contract Packs
- Identifying and obtaining missing documentation from a review of a file dealing with sale enquiries
- Obtaining redemption statements, preparing Draft Completion Statements and arrange completions
- Undertaking relevant searches and prepare Search reports
- Drafting Transfer Deeds
- Prepare Mortgage Reports
- Liaise with clients and third parties
- Request Redemption statements
- Adhere to and promote compliance with Conveyancing Quality Scheme and the Conveyancing Protocol, the firm’s policies, practices and procedures; legislation applicable to the profession and to any relevant quality standards
- Though training and other means, to keep fully up to date with relevant legislation and practice

You will be working towards:

- Preparing and issuing complex Sale Contract Packs
- Identifying and obtaining missing documentation from a review of a file dealing with complex sale enquiries; and checking a title for a freehold property

**Qualifications and Skills**
- Previous legal assistant experience in a conveyancing department required
- Able to work accurately and clearly explain technical matters to non technical users in both written and verbal forms
- Excellent communication skills and telephone manner
- A client focused approach to service delivery
- Strong experience in using property case management software and Microsoft office tools
- Working knowledge of the CQS Protocol, Conveyancing Association Protocol, CML, & BSA Handbooks
- Self-motivated and able to work under pressure to strict deadlines/timescales
- An attention to detail
- Highly organised
- Excellent numeracy

In return, we can offer you a competitive salary and benefits package. The business is currently trialling a hybrid working model and offers enhanced flexibility meaning you’ll be required to spend some time in the office and some time working from home.
**Hours**: 37.5 hours per week (Full Time, Permanent)
**Salary**: Competitive
**No agencies.

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