Paralegal, Planning - 6 month fixed term contract

The role

This is an excellent opportunity for a Paralegal with previous Real Estate experience to join our Planning team, within our Real Estate department.

The team specialise in all planning matters for a wide range of residential and commercial property developers, leading house builders, property companies, investment funds, and high-net-worth individuals. As well as providing advice on complex s.106 agreements, planning applications, the Community Infrastructure Levy regulations, highway agreements, listed buildings and conservation areas, and, the planning aspects of major property and corporate transactions.

The role will provide you the opportunity to work closely with senior fee earners across a broad range of planning matters, both contentious and non-contentious.

Role responsibility

You will work closely with the other fee earners in the team;

• Assisting with carrying out planning due diligence from the perspectives of buyer, seller, funder, and developer in both real estate and corporate transactions
• Assisting with drafting planning due diligence reports / replies in Certificates of Title
• Assisting with drafting and negotiating s106 agreements
• Assisting with drafting and negotiating s278 and s38 agreements
• Assisting with drafting planning provisions for contracts conditional on planning
• Assisting with drafting planning warranties and indemnities into contracts of sale and purchase and option agreements
• Assisting with planning appeals and judicial review proceedings

About you

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate;

• Relevant work experience in a Paralegal role within a Real Estate department
• The ability to work in a fast paced, high volume deadline driven environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well within a team
• The ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and clients at all levels
• Sound judgement, with the ability to use your own initiative, taking responsibility where necessary and appropriate
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to mange your own workload within client deadlines
• Strong attention to detail, with a high standard of accuracy when working in a detail orientated role
• A sound understanding of client confidentiality

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual holiday
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Interest free Season Ticket Loan
• Private Healthcare
• Pension Scheme
• Staff Introductory Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

About us

We are a London based, full-service law firm, specialising in providing straightforward advice to entrepreneurial businesses and individuals on domestic and international matters.

We have grown substantially in recent years, including two mergers and an office move. We’ve also matured in terms of our approach to providing advice to our clients, seeking to simplify and improve the experience of working with a modern, independent law firm.

We’re proud of our journey. Without losing sight of where we’ve come from, we are focused on where we’re going. We are evolving and growing every day. And just like our clients, we are ambitious and moving forward. Many of our clients are entrepreneurial, ambitious enterprises who are often privately or family owned, or private equity backed. We are one of the only London based law firms with a large private wealth offering alongside significant business law capability.

The firm also advises major corporates on particular specialist legal matters who find our straightforward approach a compelling alternative to larger, less personal firms.