Conveyancing Legal Assistant

Conveyancing Legal Assistant

A brilliant opportunity has arisen for a Legal Assistant to join this established law firm based in the Abingdon office. This critical hire due to an increase in work.

As a Legal Assistant, you will join the firm's conveyancing department. You will provide effective support within the conveyancing team. You will be working as part of a busy team, assisting in dealing with pre- and post-completion matters. More specifically, you will be responsible for the registration of all purchase transactions within priority periods, as well as handling balances and file closures for sale, purchase, and remortgage files.

In order to apply you must have previous experience within conveyancing – pre or post completion experience will be considered.

Your key duties will include:

• Providing full support to our Conveyancing Solicitors to enable them to operate efficiently
• Preparing correspondence
• Attending to clients
• Administering filing systems which will include daily filing and the opening, closing, storage and retrieval of client files
• Preparing mail and enclosures for dispatch
• Arranging the scanning and photocopying of paperwork
• Carrying out other duties and responsibilities as required
• Ensuring that all post-completions processes are finalised, including:
  
  • Paying stamp duty to HMRC
  • Serving any notices to landlords
  • Registering new owners with the Land Registry
  • Requisitions

Salary is negotiable and dependent on experience (£25,000 - £30,000).

To apply for this Conveyancing Legal Assistant role based in Abingdon please email your CV or call Gayle Woolf.

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