Paralegal - Real Estate Cardiff, Wales
Job description
Real Estate Paralegal
Our Real Estate team is expanding its social housing service. We’re looking for an experienced paralegal to join the team, ideally with immediate availability. Our work includes providing a variety of transaction-handling and advisory services to clients operating in a range of sectors. Clients include:
- Developers (both public and private – commercial, residential and mixed use)
- Occupiers (including a number of significant UK national operators)
- Banks and financiers
- Real estate investors on the acquisition, management and disposal of investment properties
Is this the start of your Capital Law journey?
Working nationally and internationally from our base in Wales, we offer all the legal services that a trading organisation needs.
We work with businesses of all sizes – from large corporations to those just starting up – across the private, public, and third sectors. We also have a consultancy business, Capital People, that specialises in HR and Health & Safety.
We’re made up of leading lawyers and consultants, who work closely with our clients to provide the best possible support. Ultimately, we have one purpose: to help others succeed.
Working with us
The Real Estate team’s core work comes from an excellent reputation with major developers and occupiers, energy projects, and in the education and public sectors. We aim to be one of the leading Real Estate departments in Wales ranked tier 1 by the Legal 500 and Chambers. Our growth will primarily come from existing clients, as we identify what more we can do to help them develop. There will also be a targeted marketing campaign to help identify and attract new clients. We know that clients in the construction or energy sectors often need property advice too. We will build on this experience by targeting companies in the sector, working closely with the Construction, Energy & Projects team.
Responsibilities
- assisting partners and associates and delivering the objectives agreed with you by the supervising partner.
- managing client files in compliance with the Firm’s rules as specified in the Quality and Practice Manuals (such as Money Laundering, File opening and Rule 2 letters).
- complying fully with the Firm’s core values.
- ensuring compliance (with the assistance of the Firm) with the Law Society CPD requirements.
- drafting and negotiating legal documentation including contracts, appointments, warranties, performance bonds and parent company guarantees, letters of intent
- analysing and interpreting legal documentation in order to provide advice to clients
- managing the day to day running of a number of matters including coordinating documentation, liaising with external companies and clients, updating the internal cross-department lawyers
- assisting colleagues with more complex matters
- attending meetings and telephone conferences and preparing follow-up action points and attendance notes
- performing legal research
- drafting correspondence and liaising with clients and third parties by telephone
- updating matter files
- assisting with preparing precedent documents
- researching and writing topical articles and blogs for marketing purposes
You’ll need
- research skills
- strong drafting skills
- planning and organizing
- strong communication skills attention to detail and accuracy
- good initiative and problem-solving skills
In return, we offer
- a competitive salary
- career development opportunities: we’re a fast-growing and ambitious firm. We understand that to fulfil our potential, we need to fulfil that of all our employees, and our training and career development programme is very high on the agenda. We offer promotion twice a year and aim to develop our paralegals to trainees via our internal training contract cycle.
- excellent rewards and benefits: from a competitive pension scheme, comprehensive health plan, life assurance, flexibility to work from home, option to buy/sell annual leave and recognition scheme to a cycle to work scheme, yoga, language classes and lots more.
- a great location and working environment: Cardiff is a fantastic place to live and work. It’s good value for money, with short commuting times, and a vibrant, friendly atmosphere. Our office, in the city centre, is right in the middle of it all.
- We are an equal opportunities employer aiming for diversity in our workforce
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free flu jabs
- Gym membership
- Private dental insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Cardiff: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Paralegal: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
