Coventry City Centre
Salary £23,000 to £25,000 per annum
We are working with a very well-established Legal 500-listed, Lexcel and CQS accredited multi-office regional law firm, who are seeking an experienced Conveyancing Legal Secretary or a Conveyancing Paralegal to join their busy Property Team based in Coventry city centre.
This is a full time, office-based, position working Monday-Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm with an hour for lunch.
The successful candidate will assist Fee Earners with a range of administrative tasks to support the Conveyancing process.
The role will involve:
- Providing support to the Residential Conveyancing Team
- Undertaking document preparation, typing and administration work
- Scanning post and allocating to fee earners electronically
- Assisting in maintaining client files
- Providing Conveyancing quotes
- Opening new files
- Progressing files through to post-completion, file closing and archiving
- Dealing with client enquiries and queries over the telephone and in person
- Providing updates to clients and estate agents
- Updating files on a Legal Case Management System
Suitable Candidates will have:
- Experience of working in a law firm, supporting a conveyancing team
- Excellent client care and communication skills
- Good organisational skills, with attention to detail
- Ability to work well as part of a team
- Experience of using MS office – Word, Excel, Outlook
- Experience of using a legal case management system
This is a full time, office based permanent job, working 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday (35 hours per week)
Benefits include:
- 23 days’ holiday (increasing to 27), plus 8 days’ bank holidays
- 2 days’ additional leave between Christmas and New Year (office closure)
- Your birthday off, from your second year of employment
- Holiday buy and sell scheme. Buy or sell up to 5 days holiday per year
- Annual salary reviews
- Company Sick Pay (on completion of probation period)
- Company Pension Scheme
- Discounted legal fees (on completion of probation period)
- BUPA healthcare scheme (on completion of probation period)
- Death in service benefits 3 x salary (on completion of probation period)
- Long service awards
- Career development and regular performance reviews
- Technical and personal skills training
- Community and fundraising events
- Full induction programme
- Virtual GP
- Funeral Planning and support
- Group Life Employee Assistance Programme
- Bereavement and Probate helpline and counselling service
Note: Salary is given as a guideline in line with market rate and will be dependent on experience. The information given above is correct to the best of our knowledge
