Residential Legal Assistant, Evesham
Full Time office based Monday to Friday 9:00AM - 5:15PM
Salary will be dependant on experience.
The successful Conveyancing Assistant will work alongside an experienced fee earner in a busy conveyancing environment. You will assist on a full and varied caseload of freehold/leasehold sales and purchase, remortgage, transfers of equity, right to buy and shared ownership schemes from start to finish.
Responsibilities include:
- Dealing with queries raised by clients, solicitors, lenders and estate agents, whether face to face, by telephone or by email.
- Making detailed attendance notes of all correspondence
- Opening and closing files on our CMS
- Ensuring files on CMS are updated with all correspondence.
- Applying GDPR and SRA regulations, following Lexcel and firm procedures.
- Administrative support (including photocopying and scanning etc)
- Preparing quotes to clients
- Drafting completion statements
- Requesting mortgage redemption figures and mortgage advances
- Assist Fee Earner in preparing report on title, report on mortgage and search report for clients
- Issuing sale contracts
- Replying to sales enquiries on freehold and leasehold properties
- Ordering searches online
- Setting up completions
- Post completion admin
- Drafting AP1s
- Using Land Registry portal to submit registration applications, reply to requisitions
- Generate Stamp Duty Land Tax calculations and submit applications
- Preparing and submitting invoices, receipts and payments to the finance team
- Occasional reception cover
Please call Anna Ramage on for more info.