Job Description
Job Title Legal Assistant
Closing Date 25-Sep-2022
Position Full Time
Business Entity Gateley Legal
Department Real Estate
Location Nottingham - United Kingdom
Job Type Experienced Hire
Description
Gateley is a legal and professional services group, with over 580 professional advisers. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. We proudly won 'UK Law Firm of the Year' at The British Legal Awards 2019.
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.
The Team
Our national Real Estate team has an outstanding reputation for its technical and commercial expertise across all disciplines, including commercial development, commercial investment, mixed-use development, landlord and tenant, retail and leisure, finance, real estate litigation, planning and environmental.
The East Midlands team (Nottingham) has an enviable reputation for specialising in real estate development, finance, investment and joint ventures and complex real estate development matters including town centre regeneration, retail office and distribution parks and residential promotion and collaboration. Clients include major house builders, public sector sponsors and occupiers, investors, financiers, and corporate occupiers.
The Role
We are looking to recruit a proactive Legal Assistant who can provide support to fee earners and partners across our Real Estate teams in Nottingham.
You will assist fee earners who advise clients on real estate development, finance, investment and joint ventures and complex real estate development matters including town centre regeneration, retail office and distribution parks and residential promotion and collaboration. You may also be required to assist on any (ad hoc) high net worth residential conveyancing matters.
The role will be based at our Nottingham office. A regular office presence will be required (up to two days per week) but provides flexibility for an agile home working arrangement.
Key Skills and Experience
The successful candidate will be confident liaising with stakeholders, colleagues and clients, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless legal assistance support service.
In particular we look for the following attributes:
Previous legal assistance experience working within a real estate or property team would be highly advantageous.
Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is essential.
Previous experience of using BigHand digital dictation and Land Registry would be beneficial.
Competent working knowledge of Microsoft Word is highly essential.
First class communication skills both written and verbal.
Excellent levels of accuracy.
Initiative to learn and ability to self-motivate.
Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines with the ability to remain calm.
Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills.
Always demonstrate discretion and the ability to always maintain absolute confidentiality.
IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.
Diversity, Inclusion and Well Being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.
We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, disability, and culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
The successful candidate will have their own workload, be able to work with minimal supervision, manage their own time and work well under pressure.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.
Closing Date 25-Sep-2022
Position Full Time
Business Entity Gateley Legal
Department Real Estate
Location Nottingham - United Kingdom
Job Type Experienced Hire
Description
Gateley is a legal and professional services group, with over 580 professional advisers. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. We proudly won 'UK Law Firm of the Year' at The British Legal Awards 2019.
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.
The Team
Our national Real Estate team has an outstanding reputation for its technical and commercial expertise across all disciplines, including commercial development, commercial investment, mixed-use development, landlord and tenant, retail and leisure, finance, real estate litigation, planning and environmental.
The East Midlands team (Nottingham) has an enviable reputation for specialising in real estate development, finance, investment and joint ventures and complex real estate development matters including town centre regeneration, retail office and distribution parks and residential promotion and collaboration. Clients include major house builders, public sector sponsors and occupiers, investors, financiers, and corporate occupiers.
The Role
We are looking to recruit a proactive Legal Assistant who can provide support to fee earners and partners across our Real Estate teams in Nottingham.
You will assist fee earners who advise clients on real estate development, finance, investment and joint ventures and complex real estate development matters including town centre regeneration, retail office and distribution parks and residential promotion and collaboration. You may also be required to assist on any (ad hoc) high net worth residential conveyancing matters.
The role will be based at our Nottingham office. A regular office presence will be required (up to two days per week) but provides flexibility for an agile home working arrangement.
Key Skills and Experience
The successful candidate will be confident liaising with stakeholders, colleagues and clients, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless legal assistance support service.
In particular we look for the following attributes:
Previous legal assistance experience working within a real estate or property team would be highly advantageous.
Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is essential.
Previous experience of using BigHand digital dictation and Land Registry would be beneficial.
Competent working knowledge of Microsoft Word is highly essential.
First class communication skills both written and verbal.
Excellent levels of accuracy.
Initiative to learn and ability to self-motivate.
Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines with the ability to remain calm.
Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills.
Always demonstrate discretion and the ability to always maintain absolute confidentiality.
IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.
Diversity, Inclusion and Well Being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.
We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, disability, and culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
The successful candidate will have their own workload, be able to work with minimal supervision, manage their own time and work well under pressure.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.
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