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Property Legal PA
Well-regarded UK law firm known for its dynamic, full-service practice is seeking to hire a Property Legal PA to join their London office on a permanent basis.
- Salary to £45,000
- Hybrid working (3 days office / 2 days remote)
- Excellent employee benefits!
The successful Legal PA will provide secretarial and administrative support to a range of fee earners, including Partners, Associates and Trainees, in their Property team.
Property Legal PA Key Responsibilities:
- Support fee earners with administrative activities (for example, bundling, indexing, general organisation etc)
- Responsible for client care correspondence, opening files, conflict checks and sanctions searches and working with the AML team during the client/file opening process
- Act as first point of contact for clients on phone, email and face-to-face
- Prepare client registration documents, engagement/assignment letters, conflicts checks, money laundering, sanctions searches and audit letters, with direction from the Partner/fee earner
- Manage inbox and file e-mails, ensuring that urgent emails are promptly picked up by fee earners, or forwarded to another fee earner in their absence
- Carry out typing tasks i.e. urgent documents (digital and non-digital dictation)
- Make travel arrangements (flights, hotels, dinners etc)
- Work collaboratively with other secretarial support and provide support to the secretarial team during secretarial absences for the department (and firm)
- Attend to relevant property and finance searches through “InfoTrack”, deals with Land Registry applications and stamp duty returns with direction from the fee earner
- Supports fee earners with billing processes
Property Legal PA Skills & Requirements:
- At least 3 years’ experience as a Legal PA within Commercial and Residential Conveyancing
- Ideally a secretarial qualification (ILEX, Pitmans, Quest, RSA or equivalent)
