Commercial Property Legal Secretary
- Recruiter
- Kingsley
- Location
- Cheshire
- Salary
- £15,000 - £20,000
- Posted
- 10 Oct 2017
- Closes
- 07 Nov 2017
- Ref
- LJL16143
- Job Title
- Legal Secretary
- Practice Area
- Commercial Property
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Due to a period of growth, I am now recruiting for an experienced commercial property legal secretary to join a well-established legal 500 firm in Chester.
On offer is a competitive salary and benefits package, which is negotiable, depending upon your previous experience.
The benefits
This legal job has a benefits package that includes 21 days’ holiday plus the ability to buy an additional 5 holidays as required. In addition to this they also shut down between Christmas and New year which is given to all employees as an additional Christmas gift! They have dress down day every Friday and also allow you to finish early on a Friday. In addition, they also offer a health cash plan where you can add family members also if you wish, child care vouchers, and cycle to work scheme.
About the role?
My client is a highly regarded Legal 500 specialist Commercial Law Firm. This legal opportunity will will see you working within their commercial property department. The department acts for clients which include commercial banks, developers and corporations, pension funds, insolvency practitioners as well as individual and corporate investors.
In this commercial property legal secretary position, you will be working closely with two commercial property fee earners. You will be assisting the two fee earners with a varied commercial property caseload to include sale and purchase, landlord and tenant, estate management, disposal, and acquisition. As such previous experience of working as a legal secretary within a commercial-property environment is required. Your main duties will include: -
- Opening files
- Carrying out searches and dealing with enquires relating to these searches
- Use H M Land Registry Portal
- Collating title bundles and scanning deeds
- Retrieving and storing deeds
- Deal with post completion registration and stamp duty land tax formalities
- Preparing correspondence and documents through audio typing
- Carrying out copy typing of documents
The candidate
My client is very keen to receive applications from commercial property legal secretaries who have previous experience in a similar role.
This is a great opportunity to join an exceptional Legal 500 practice, offering, full exposure to high-quality work. Therefore, apply straight away for prompt feedback. For more commercial property legal secretary jobs in Chester, talk to Kingsley.
Key Contact
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