Real Estate Paralegal

Are you an experienced Property Paralegal or Legal Assistant looking for your next role to help boost your career?

My client is a full-service law firm based in Newcastle upon Tyne serving clients throughout the UK and further afield. They have an outstanding reputation for delivering high quality partner-led advice with exceptional personal service.

The role

They require a full-time Paralegal to join their dynamic Commercial Real Estate department assisting the team with a range of transactions and administration tasks across a variety of sectors including portfolios, landlord and tenant work, investment transactional work, real estate development and general commercial property work.

This Paralegal position involves:

• Liaising closely with fee-earners on a daily basis providing efficient and effective Paralegal support.
• Dealing with file opening/closing and assisting with compliance matters and engagement documents.
• Assisting the team with WIP and other financial management tasks, and with the management of data and other KPI information. .
• Arranging and (where required) attending client and internal meetings to assist with administration tasks.
• Assisting Partners with departmental tasks relating to compliance, audits and other matters.
• Assisting Partners and Senior Fee earners with the administration of business development initiatives.
• Document production including preparing and amending transactional documents, completion statements and invoices for approval, collating and assisting with the production of pre-completion transactional reports to clients and signing versions of documents.
• Working with the team on key property transactions in respect of collating and managing property due diligence information, including working with online platforms for data/document sharing, tracking deadlines for the team and liaising with Partners to assist with those being met.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have exceptional organisation and IT skills with the ability to prioritise and follow clear instructions. As a key member of the team they will be a pro-active thinker and problem solver with an ability to contribute to the team and its success. Excellent communication skills are essential as is an keen attention to detail.

Ideally the candidate will have experience of dealing with residential or commercial property transactions.

Hybrid working is considered and salary will be commensurate with experience.

In addition to this, the package on offer also includes life assurance, medical insurance, bonus scheme, long service rewards and much more.

A genuinely fantastic, market leading package!!!

If you are interested in the above Commercial Real Estate Paralegal role, please call Adam Dell’Armi on 01133 979929 or forward your most recent CV to a.dellarmi@clayton-legal.co.uk.

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