Legal Assistant

Job Details:

£19K - £22.5K depending on experience - Full Time - Permanent - Monday to Friday - 25 Days Holiday Plus 8 Bank Holidays - Flexi Time - Death In Service Benefit - Company Pension Scheme - Health Insurance - Cycle To Work Scheme - Childcare Vouchers.

Client Details:

Our client is a well-established, highly regarded and successful law firm based in Harrogate. Their working ethos is firmly centred on resolution and their staff are all collaboratively trained.

Job Description:

Due to ongoing expansion, they now have an opening for a Legal Assistant to join their established Residential team.

This client has a great track record of offering training contracts - providing real potential to progress with the business.

Reporting into a Team Leader, key duties include:

* Meeting clients in Reception and assisting where possible before referring to Lawyer.

* Taking telephone calls, assisting clients and other parties where possible and providing updates.

* On receipt of payment on account (sale), obtain official copies of register, plan and any file documents referred to on register.

* Sale-draft contracts.

* Sale-submit contract to buyer''s solicitors with title details, protocol documents etc. Set reminder for seven days-have we heard from buyer''s solicitors?

* Sale-send Protocol documents to client for retention and notify estate agents that contract have been submitted.

* Sale-obtain redemption figure.

* Sale-obtain estate agents'' account and submit to client for approval.

* Chase replies to enquiries and general chasing of other parties on request of Lawyer.

* Purchase-on receipt of searches-check result and prepare a report to client to submit to Lawyer for checking.

* Purchase-raise enquiries on matters arising from searches and diarise for a response using the master title check page.

* Purchase-draft transfer and send request for completion information and undertakings.

* Prepare bills and completion statements.

* Complete exchange jobs.

* Complete completion jobs.

* Provide holiday cover for the Lawyer.

* Assist team leader in training of junior members of the team.

* Prepare files.

* Prepare files from exchange of contracts to completion including preparation of yellows/obtaining file searches, mortgage advance etc.

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