LEGAL ASSISTANT

We are currently looking for a pro active professional within an interest in the legal sector to fulfil a crucial role in our support staff within our Residential Property team in Worcester. The Residential Property team is a fast growing, highly collaborative team with vast opportunity to excel within your career.
Based in Worcester and reporting to our Associate. The Legal Assistant role objective is to provide in-depth business support to the fee earners within the team, including the following responsibilities:

• Drafting and formatting of letters, documents, and forms such as sale contracts and exchange and completion letters.
• Conduct searches (Local Authority, Land Registry, Insolvency, Compliance Regulation)
• Being a first point of contact for any administrative and business support requirements for fee earners, anticipating the teams needs where possible.
• Supporting the file opening process for the team.
• Assisting with the preparation of all financial transactions as require, including new matter quotes.
• Filtering client and agent queries, at times being the first point of contact for clients.

WE ALSO WANT YOU TO ACHIEVE YOUR ABSOLUTE BEST DURING THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS. PLEASE LET US KNOW OF ANY CHANGES WE CAN MAKE AT ANY POINT THAT WILL HELP SUPPORT YOUR APPLICATION. IF THIS OPPORTUNITY SOUNDS OF INTEREST TO YOU, PLEASE MAKE AN APPLICATION AND SUBMIT YOUR CV.

A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership