Conveyancing Assistant

Our client is seeking an experienced Conveyancing Assistant to join their team in Otley, West Yorkshire. 

My client is currently looking for an experienced conveyancing assistant to support a single fee earner, as part of an experienced conveyancing team currently consisting of 5 fee earners and 4 assistants. With a one-fee earner to one assistant ratio at the practice.

This role will require someone capable of taking specific steps in residential property matters. This will be a transactional role, where responsibility will lie with the solicitor in charge who will delegate tasks as required. These will include file opening, searching, and various steps pre and post-completion.

Candidate Profile

• The right candidate will have previous legal experience in residential property.

• Ideally 1+ years experience working in a similar role.  

• Previous Law Firm experience is desirable. 

Main Duties:

• To act as assistant to a fee earner in the conveyancing department.

• Typing from digital dictation (Voicepower DPA), quickly and accurately and prioritising where required and/or noted

• Correcting the fee earner’s obvious mistakes and checking where in any doubt

• Composing and producing routine correspondence and documents using the firm’s Case Management System (P4W TFB) and assisting in ongoing developments of that system

• Opening new files and matters and send out fee estimate letters

• Scan client ID & other documents and update the matter file

• Send out Property searches

• Obtain documents from Land Registry, office copy entries.

• Complete registration post completion with Land Registry

• File SDLT return and arrange payment of SDLT tax

• File any deeds and document in storage accurately

• Assisting with the workload of others in the conveyancing team where time allows and/or priorities and/or holiday periods require

Preference will be given under our established policy to an individual who knows the Wharfe Valley and surrounding area and who has a real connection with it.

Please Note:  Due to the number of applications we receive we may be unable to respond to every application directly.

If you have not heard from us within 3 working days, please assume your application has been unsuccessful.