Property Legal PA

Property Legal PA

Well-regarded UK law firm known for its dynamic, full-service practice is seeking to hire a Property Legal PA to join their London office on a permanent basis.

• Salary to £45,000
• Hybrid working (3 days office / 2 days remote)
• Competitive employee benefits on offer to include healthcare plans, cycle to work scheme and 22 days annual leave plus 3 days business closure for the festive period!

The successful Legal PA will provide secretarial and administrative support to a range of fee earners, including Partners, Associates and Trainees, in their Property team.

Property Legal PA Key Responsibilities:

• Support fee earners with administrative activities (for example, bundling, indexing, general organisation etc)
• Responsible for client care correspondence, opening files, conflict checks and sanctions searches and working with the AML team during the client/file opening process
• Act as first point of contact for clients on phone, email and face-to-face
• Prepare client registration documents, engagement/assignment letters, conflicts checks, money laundering, sanctions searches and audit letters, with direction from the Partner/fee earner
• Manage inbox and file e-mails, ensuring that urgent emails are promptly picked up by fee earners, or forwarded to another fee earner in their absence
• Carry out typing tasks i.e. urgent documents (digital and non-digital dictation)
• Make travel arrangements (flights, hotels, dinners etc)
• Work collaboratively with other secretarial support and provide support to the secretarial team during secretarial absences for the department (and firm)
• Attend to relevant property and finance searches through “InfoTrack”, deals with Land Registry applications and stamp duty returns with direction from the fee earner
• Supports fee earners with billing processes

Property Legal PA Skills & Requirements:

• At least 3 years’ experience as a Legal PA within Commercial and Residential Conveyancing
• Ideally a secretarial qualification (ILEX, Pitmans, Quest, RSA or equivalent)