Residential Property Legal Secretary / PA

Residential Property Legal Secretary/PA

Guildford, Surrey

Salary circa £24,000 - £28,000

Full Time - Based in the office

Legal 500 and Chambers noted Surrey and London firm are seeking to appoint an experienced Property Secretary with their Residential Property Department.

The chosen candidate will be supporting fee earners within the Residential Property Department handling residential property and high value matters, including freehold and leasehold sales and purchase, equity release, shared ownership, re mortgages and buy to let.

Duties will include:

Opening files and new matters on Case Management system

Preparing client care letters and service plans

Audio typing from dictation when needed

Preparing and drafting correspondence and precedent documents for fee earners (from PLC and the firm''s own library of precedents)

Submitting searches and preparing draft reports on results and title documents

Carrying out searches (bankruptcy and priority)

Extensive use of the Land Registry portal

Preparing completion statements and invoices

Drafting and submitting Land Registry applications and dealing with completions and post completions formalities to include filling out SDLT forms

Liaising with clients and other parties to keep files ''ticking over'' for fee earners

Audio typing from digital dictation system

Daily use of outlook for diaries, booking client and departmental meetings

Desired skills and experience:

Legal Secretarial/PA/Assistant experience within a Residential Property department in a law firm is essential

Strong and efficient secretarial/legal admin skills

High level of attention to detail

Fast audio typing ability using digital dictation systems

Experience of using case management system

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Very well organised

Friendly & professional attitude

IT literate - Microsoft Word / Excel / Outlook/ Digital Audio software