LEGAL ASSISTANT

We are currently looking for a pro active professional with conveyancing experience to fulfil an important support role within our Real Estate finance team.
The Real Estate Finance team is a vibrant team with a strong culture and deals with fast-paced transactions, acting for both lenders and borrowers on refinances and property acquisitions.
Based in Cheltenham and reporting to one of our senior fee earners, the Legal Assistant role will provide support to the fee earners within the team, client and intermediaries, and will include the following responsibilities:

• Supporting the file opening process for the team.
• Being a first point of contact for any administrative and business support requirements for fee earners, anticipating the teams needs where possible.
• Drafting, documents, and forms.
• Assisting on refinance and purchase transactions.
• Requesting property, OS1 and Bankruptcy searches.
• Creating mortgage and purchase reports as well as drafting simple certificates of title
• Drafting completion statements and assisting with post completion requirements (including SDLT returns and Land Registry applications)
• 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