Conveyancing Legal Assistant
Wimborne
My client, a leading law firm, is looking for an experienced Legal Assistant to join their busy Conveyancing team in Wimborne.
If you enjoy building strong working relationships, a varied workload and have experience of working at pace in a busy conveyancing department this could be the role for you.
Duties will include:
- Dealing with client's matters where appropriate
- Typing of correspondence, filing and opening new files
- Ordering Searches and Land Registry documents
- Preparing files for billing
- Screening incoming calls
- Sorting and prioritising mail, emails and messages
- Preparation of straightforward legal documents
- Provision of a professional & friendly service to clients
Skills and experience required:
- A strong background in legal conveyancing work / previous experience working within a busy Conveyancing team as a Conveyancing Legal Assistant or similar.
- To have excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- The ability to build relationships and work collaboratively with all employees
- Great attention to detail
- To be able to produce a high standard of work when under pressure
- The ability to make sound decisions taking ownership when required.
- To have excellent IT skills including Microsoft packages