Conveyancing Executive

Shakespeare Martineau is a leading law firm that combines creativity, commerciality and clarity. We work with blue-chip companies, leading organisations, high street brands and individuals across the country.

Our multi-disciplinary team delivers a broad range of specialist legal services, and particularly stands out for its expertise across sectors including, but not limited to: energy, education, banking and financial services, investment funds, healthcare and advanced manufacturing. 

We’re proud of our people’s varied backgrounds and expertise. Our different qualities stand out and make us interesting to our clients.

We firmly believe in working hard and being ambitious. We look to recruit and develop talented people to achieve their potential - and who will contribute to achieving ours too.

Here you can fulfil your ambitions, whatever they are and however rapidly you want to achieve them. Together, and individually, we create exceptional results.

Our multi-disciplinary Real Estate group is highly regarded by our clients and within the sector. It comprises not only lawyers but town and country planners, RICS surveyors, property managers and sector focused financial advisers. We’ve brought experts into our services in planning, development, investment, landlord and tenant matters, construction and litigation with a particular emphasis on energy, retail, housing, education, finance and investment funds.

Our plot sales team deals with the legal aspects of plot sales for our clients, including planning, development, investment, construction, litigation and dealing with both landlord and tenant matters. The team regularly acts on behalf of some of the UK’s biggest house builders.

The role:

You will work closely with a senior fee earner and partner of the business helping with plot sales in a busy and fast moving environment for national PLC developers.

This is a full-time opportunity and will initially be offered on a fixed term contract of 6 months.

The key duties include:

• dealing with part exchange purchases in relation to the plot
• running your own part exchange purchases/sales caseload
• working as part of a larger team and handling all aspects of the conveyancing process for purchase and sales, including the SDLT and Registration Process
• maintaining close contact throughout the process with clients
• providing an excellent service to our in-house part exchange/plot sales team and site agents

Skills and experience you will have:

• a comprehensive understanding and experience in all aspects of residential development, post site acquisition and residential purchases/sales of both freehold and leasehold titles together with unregistered land purchases
• comprehensive conveyancing experience in the residential and building sector

Key competencies you will need:

• excellent communication and client management skills
• an ability to cope with a demanding workload and manage constantly changing priorities and deadlines especially around clients’ busy trading periods

About you – you will be:

• highly enthusiastic, willing to go the extra mile and be happy to go beyond the job description
• respectful towards others and have a positive, willing and ‘can do’ attitude
• keen to learn, interested in driving your own career progression and be proactive in taking ownership of this

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.