Legal Administrator Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Job description
Our Residential Real Estate team have an opportunity for a Legal Administrator to join them in Newcastle.
This is a permanent position which will be a combination of home and office working.
The team
Our Residential team is one of the largest of its kind. We support our clients in a range of projects acting for PLC house builders, regional house builders, PRS investors and land-owners in respect of residential and residential-led mixed-use developments, for both build to rent and build for sale sectors.
The team that you will be directly working with consists of around 7 member of staff, including an Managing Paralegal who you will report to.
The role
This interesting role will see you working on a broad range of matters, assisting with portfolio sales and acquisitions, housing and leasehold management issues– shared ownership, right to buy etc. for developers, investors or social housing clients. More specifically you'll play an essential part in ensuring that new files are opened correctly, adhering to both our internal processes and individual client requirements, in addition to producing initial correspondence whilst ensuring that all files are managed effectively and efficiently. And in time, this role provides genuine scope to take on more complex responsibilities as you develop your knowledge in this area of law.
This varied role will also involve:
- Assisting with post completion work
- Preparing and submitting Land Registry applications
- Obtaining official copies from the Land Registry and Land charges search results
- Preparing financial payment forms
- Assisting with the preparation of completion statements
- Ensuring client files are compliant with the Solicitors Regulation Authority
- Making phone calls to clients and solicitors to update or chase for information
- Checking file ledger balances and closing client matter files
What are we looking for?
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone making the next move in their Legal Admin career, or a Legal graduate looking to make the first step in to the profession.
You'll have a strong team ethic with excellent attention to detail and your strong organisational skills will enable you to work to strict deadlines. Previous real estate experience, whilst advantageous, is by no means essential. What is essential are strong IT skills (including MS Word, Excel and Outlook) and excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
What makes it great to work here?
We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!
As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.
Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about ED&I at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page.
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