Legal Assistant - Valley, United Kingdom - Harrison Clark Rickerbys

Harrison Clark Rickerbys
Harrison Clark Rickerbys
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Valley, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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About The Role
**We are currently looking for a well organised Legal Assistant with good attention to detail to join our Wye Valley residential conveyancing Team.
The team deals with mostly local sales, purchases and transfers on behalf of existing and new clients.

The team does not deal with volume panel conveyancing and instead receives recommendations from existing clients and other departments within the firm.

Based in Wye Valley and reporting to a Conveyancer you will provide efficient legal administration to the fee earners and other colleagues within the team.


Duties of the Legal Assistant:


  • Prepare and issue sale contracts
  • Assist with conveyancing completions including the financial documents
  • Conduct searches (Local Authority, Land Registry, Lawyer search, Insolvency, Compliance regulation)
  • Take telephone calls and field enquiries as appropriate
  • Prepare new matter quotes as outlined by the fee earner
  • First point of contact for administrative and business support requirements for fee
- earners

  • File opening and closing using the firm's case management system (SOS)
  • Photocopying, scanning and other administrative duties
  • Collate client AML documentation for review by the feeearner
  • Lexel compliance and reviews
  • Prepare exchange and completion letters
  • Deal with post completion formalities and registration at the Land Registry
  • Keep the matter file up to date on the case management system

About You
Knowledge and experience of Microsoft Office, Outlook, Word, Excel and Teams, Zoom, etc. is required for this position as well as being competent in communicating concisely and accurately.


About Us

Benefits of working with us:


  • Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
  • Support staff bonus scheme
  • 27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
  • Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • 1/3 gym membership contribution
  • Flu vaccinations

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?


As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 70, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals.

However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service, we take an entrepreneurial approach.

We're flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them.

We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society's Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.


With eleven offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they're located.

We've expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons has led to the addition of two new office locations (Northampton and Milton Keynes), and even further growth in London and Cambridge.


With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

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