Conveyancing Assistant

Conveyancing Assistant

A new opportunity has opened for a Conveyancing Assistant to work within the Residential Conveyancing team of our multi-office, multi-discipline legal practice in North London. The firm has conveyancing practices that operate across a number of sites and with this in the mind are now looking for someone who can support fee earners within a Conveyancing environment at our Chingford Office.

Required Skills:

The successful candidate should have:

• Good background experience in the residential property environment - Essential
• Previous Conveyancing assistant experience, ideally gained within a busy property environment - Essential
• Previous experience in post completion including dealing with AP1 forms, TR1 forms and liaising with the Land Registry  - Desirable
• Education to Degree level in Law - Essential
• Experience in working with a case management system - Desirable

Daily responsibilities will include:

• Answering calls,
• Dealing with client enquiries both face to face and over the telephone,
• Providing appropriate advice and assistance in accordance with professional standards and internal quality,
• Provide written, telephone and office costs estimates to Prospective clients/ Introducers with a full breakdown of costs and disbursements as requested,
• Works on conveyancing files from exchange of contracts onwards – preparing transfer deeds, requesting mortgage advances, notifying clients and agents on exchange of contracts and completion of conveyancing matters,
• Preparing documents such as post exchange letters and documents to be sent with the Property Report,
• Dealing with all stamp duty forms and AP1s,
• Ensure that billing takes place promptly and that outstanding balances are collected as soon as feasible.

About you:

• Excellent communication Skills,
• Good IT skills with the ability to prepare completion statements and accounts,
• Good time management skills,
• Self-motivated,
• Organise own workload with minimum supervision, 
• Cope effectively in demanding circumstances,
• Work to a pace without errors,
• Flexible approach to work,
• Accuracy and attention to detail.

Due to the volume of enquiries that we receive, we are not always able to respond to all CVs. If you have not received a response within two weeks, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful in this instance. Thank you for your interest in Barnes and Partners Solicitors.