We're a forward-thinking law firm and have several offices across the UK.  We provide legal expertise and commercial advice to our clients across a wide range of sectors including Real Estate.

We now have a job opportunity for a Legal Assistant to join our large Residential Real Estate team in Leeds.

What do the team do?

Our Residential team is one of the largest of its kind.  We support our clients in a range of projects acting for PLC house builders, regional house builders, investors and landowners in respect of residential and residential -led mixed-use developments, for both build to rent and build for sale sectors.  The team deal with portfolio sales and acquisitions, individual property sales, housing and leasehold management issues, shared ownership, right to buy agreements and more.  Our clients range from developers and investors through to social housing providers.

What skills are we looking for?

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone making the next move in their legal admin career, or a legal graduate looking to make the first step into the profession.  

In this role you will be providing administration support on a broad range of matters for the residential legal team. As part of a busy team, you'll need to be a supportive colleague with both a helpful and flexible attitude. More specifically you'll play an essential part in ensuring that files are opened and closed correctly, adhering to both our internal processes and individual client requirements,  in addition to producing initial correspondence whilst ensuring that all files are managed effectively and efficiently. In time, this role provides genuine scope to take on more complex responsibilities as you develop your knowledge in this area of law.  This varied role will also involve obtaining Official Copies from the Land Registry; submitting searches; assisting with post-completion work; preparing and submitting Land Registry applications; liaising with third parties, clients and solicitors to provide updates or obtain information; together with managing the photocopying and post.

You'll need to have excellent attention to detail, the ability to work to strict deadlines and excellent communications skills.  Previous real estate/conveyancing experience, whilst advantageous, is by no means essential.

To be successful in this role you'll need as a minimum:  

• Evidence of good academics either from school or other studies.
• Some previous experience of working within an office environment.
• Strong IT skills (including MS Word, Excel and Outlook).

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about ED&I at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

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