Paralegal / Trainee Conveyancer
Full job description
St David Recruitment Services Ltd
Salary: £26,000 per year
Paralegal / Trainee Conveyancer
ST4365
Cardiff
Permanent
£16 – £19K
Job Purpose
Under the supervision of, and working in partnership with, the Senior Property Lawyer, be trained and developed to take on and manage your own caseload and provide a comprehensive and quality conveyancing service.
Working with the Senior Property Lawyer to maximise exchanges within the Legal Team.
To proactively progress transactions managing in and outbound telephone calls and build enhanced relationships with both customer and Estate Agency Branches in order to deliver a service of excellence whilst optimising exchanges.
Key Result Areas
• To thoroughly understand the conveyancing process and, under supervision, be able to:
o Issue sale contracts.
o Draft replies to additional enquiries or requisitions.
o Investigate freehold titles and raise the relevant additional enquiries or requisitions.
o Interpret and advise on search results
o Draft and negotiate contract clauses to suit particular circumstances.
o Deal with clients, estate agents and other lawyers confidently on the telephone, give advice and negotiate solutions to problems.
o Undertake exchanges of contracts.
o Deal with all conditions in a mortgage offer.
o Prepare completion statements.
o Co-ordinate related sale and purchase transactions.
o Post completion tasks including registration.
• With supervision, manage and prioritise your own caseload of conveyancing transactions.
• Understand and operate the company’s procedures and policies to monitor workflow, avoid fraud and/or negligence and continually improve performance standards.
• Understand, operate and maximise the potential of the company’s conveyancing case management system throughout a conveyancing transaction.
• Effectively process escalations from CEA/CMS branches by either carrying out requested activity or escalating within Team.
• Monitor the completion of escalation requests, ensuring that service level agreements and deadlines are always met.
• Work on own initiative to identify tasks which improve the customer service relationship with CEA/CMS and optimise exchanges.
• Proactively deliver updates to Estate Agency branches throughout the month.
• To support the team in chasing exchanges, by calling third parties involved in the transaction, as directed by the property lawyer.
• Undertake any other task as reasonably requested by your Team Manager, Resolution Team or Head of Property Law.
Communication and Working Relationships
Internal – Liaise with other legal teams, team managers, client accounting and shared services.
External – Liaise with prospective and existing clients, estate agents, other solicitors and Conveyancers, mortgage lenders, brokers and other work providers.
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