Conveyancing Secretary - Otley, United Kingdom - CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd

CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd
CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd
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Otley, United Kingdom

1 month ago

Tom O´Connor

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Legal Secretary
Otley
Salary up to £24,000
My client, a long-establshed law firm are looking for a Conveyancing Assistant to join their team. This role will require someone capable of taking specific steps in residential property matters.

This will be a transactional role, where responsibility willlie with the solicitor in charge who will delegate tasks as required.

These will include file opening, searching, and various steps pre and post completion.

Main Duties:

  • Typing from digital dictation (voicepower DPA), quickly and accurately and prioritising where required and/or noted correcting the fee earner's obvious mistakes and checking where in any doubt
  • Composing and producing routine correspondence and documents using the firm's Case Management System (P4W TFB) and assisting in ongoing developments of that system
  • Opening new files and matters and send out fee estimate letters
  • Scan client ID & other documents and update the matter file
  • Send out Property searches
  • Obtain documents from Land Registry, office copy entries.
  • Complete registration post completion with Land Registry
  • File SDLT return and arrange payment of SDLT tax
  • File any deeds and document in storage accurately
  • To be acquainted with the contents of the Office Manual and to comply with its procedures
  • Maintaining own Training Record and Personnel file
  • Assisting with the workload of others in the conveyancing team where time allows and/or priorities and/or holiday periods require

Skills Required:

  • Computer and secretarial skills to high levels of speed and accuracy
  • Ability to take initiatives and responsibility under the Fee Earners authority, and to communicate with clients directly.
  • Prior experience of the above
CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. CLD Recruitment (Leeds) Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
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