Legal Secretary
JS Legal Recruitment are excited to be working with a leading Regional Legal 500 law firm with multiple offices across Essex. Our client have an opportunity for an experienced Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary to join their Hornchurch office.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Day off for your Birthday
- Pension
- Private Health
- Death in Service
- Bonus
- Parking
- Hours 9am - 5pm
As a Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary you will provide secretarial support to the conveyancing department. Which deals with all aspects of, residential conveyancing including sales and purchase transactions, remortgage, equity transfer and large volumes of freehold and leasehold property work across East Anglia and London.
The Role
- As a Residential Conveyancing Legal Secretary you will provide secretarial support to the property fee earner
- Screening incoming calls
- Dealing with new business opportunities so that these are processed efficiently helping to ensure the continued success of the property department
- Audio typing using digital dictation
- Diary management , booking rooms and arranging meetings
- Using case management system
- Liaise with clients, solicitors, Estate agents and mortgage lenders
- Providing quotations , sending out client care letters
- Deal with client queries, and take instruction from clients
- Amend and reformat documents
- Apply for searches using on line services including land registry
- Using HRMC website to complete stamp duty land tax forms
- Deal with post completion matters
- Maintain client files, opening and closing of files
- Maintain the filing system
- Assist fee earners in the maintenance of client accounts
Experience required:
- Recent Residential or Commercial Property legal secretarial experience essential
- Fast and accurate audio typing skills, including Digital dictation
- Experience with Microsoft office , word, outlook, Excel
- Able to prioritise and multitask
- Excellent telephone manor
- Possess the ability to deal with client queries when fee earners are out of the office
- Friendly working environment
Apply Now.
If you feel this is the right opportunity for you, Contact Julie Sheridan at JS Legal Recruitment Ltd, quoting reference JSL2346 OR email now your cv or call for a confidential discussion .
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All successful applications will be responded to within 7 working days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.