ABOUT THE TEAM

Gowling WLG is home to one of the UK’s largest real estate practices with a team of more than 275 commercially-minded, innovative and pragmatic lawyers.
We work alongside many of the sector’s most successful companies and have helped to deliver numerous high profile projects, advising throughout their lifecycle.

KEY SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

Working in an inclusive, sharing and collaborative culture you will be expected to play your part in ensuring the continuing success and growth of the team. Previous experience of working in a legal or office environment is desirable.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity, and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone’s potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description, please contact Jess Swingler jess.swingler@gowlingwlg.com

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

Our business is growing and we are looking for a Paralegal to be part of the centralised Real Estate Post Completion Team on a 6 month fixed term contract.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Bespoke Project Support – Dealing with bespoke instructions on large scale property schemes i.e. dealing with rent charge registrations and scheme management, supporting on lease reviews and any other bespoke matters received by the Post Completion Team.
• File Management – receiving and dealing with instructions from MFEs via Intapp for REG
• Preparation of Land Registry Applications - receiving, reviewing and preparing the Land Registry applications for REG and processing submissions using the Land Registry online portal.
• SDLT/LTT - preparation of SDLT/LTT forms using the online instruction form and Landscape 2, processing of payments and submissions and adhering to strict deadlines. Managing team diary entries to ensure deadlines are not missed.
• Legal Instructions – to provide legal support and advice to clients in all matters relating to resale enquiries including but not limited to deeds of variation, deeds of covenant, freehold reversion sales, land transfers and any other tasks requested by our clients
• Title Reviews - to obtain and review office copy entries and title plans following registration of land/property and prepare registration report to send to MFE
• Communication – by telephone, standard letter, email, in person or other communication media with clients, MFEs and third parties as well as with other team members.
• Finance – creating bill requests, finance forms and completing spreadsheets with financial information.
• Reporting – reporting to MFEs on progress of instructions received via Intapp and entering and updating data in spreadsheets for client reporting /updates.