It is the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams; together we win. As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!
We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves from how you dress, to how, when and where you work – we focus on outputs.
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The Team:
Our residential conveyancing team are a welcoming bunch. They are dynamic, hardworking and highly supportive of one another in providing a great service to our clients.
The residential conveyancing team act for clients on both new build and private transactions. The team form part of our wealth super-team, part of our wider life and business unit.
The role:
Have you experience gained within a residential team? Do you thrive working in a fast paced and client focused environment? Are you interested in joining a growing business with a strong track record of progression and development for its people? If this sounds like you, we want to hear from you…
We have an exciting opportunity for a paralegal to join our residential conveyancing team. The role is to provide crucial support in assisting the lead fee earner/s with the progression of their files and progress own caseload of straightforward sales files under the supervision of the lead fee earner/s.
You will have exposure to re-mortgage and transfers of equity work.
Your key duties will be:
- assisting the lead fee earner/s with the progression of their files
- progressing own caseload of files under supervision
- handling telephone and email enquiries from clients and estate agents; being the first point of contact and maintaining excellent client service
- requesting searches
- requesting redemption figures
- preparing completion statements
- setting up completions
- chasing mortgage lenders
- completing stamp duty forms
- opening files
Skills and experience you will have:
- a minimum of 12 months’ similar experience, ideally gained from within a residential conveyancing team
- experience in dealing with Land Registry portal
- experience using a case management system
- strong IT skills and fast, accurate typing ability
Key competencies you will need:
- the ability to deal with client meetings and key client contacts
- the ability to keep clients routinely updated and deal effectively in responding to changing client demands
- the ability to work to tight deadlines and high volumes at a fast pace whilst maintaining accuracy and good attention to detail
- the ability to prioritise a workload
- drive, enthusiasm, commitment and a team player approach
Candidates must be interested to pursue a career in Residential Conveyancing and will ideally hold a legal qualification.
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 hubs in Birmingham, Leicester, Lincoln, London, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Sheffield and Stratford-upon-Avon. This role will offer a blend of home and office working in our Stratford-upon-Avon office. |
