Paralegal, Planning

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 manage 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

With almost 200 lawyers in one location, we ensure our clients have the right team to help them get from where they are to where they want to be. We advise major corporates and institutions as well as entrepreneurial, ambitious enterprises which are often privately or family owned, or private equity backed. As well as our significant business law capability, we are one of only a few London-based law firms with a large private wealth offering. Our clients find our straightforward approach a compelling alternative to larger, less personal firms.

Whether you are an ambitious and talented individual wanting to hit the ground running from day one, or an established professional looking for a new opportunity, Howard Kennedy is the firm where you can really make it happen.

We have earned a strong reputation for our exceptional and uniquely talented people who between them deliver outstanding results for clients. In a firm of our size, our strong team dynamic creates a thriving culture of creativity and entrepreneurialism. Howard Kennedy is a pragmatic and non-hierarchical environment where success is shared, and you are proactively encouraged to thrive at your own pace.

Our distinctive culture is built on fairness and respect. Guided by the firm’s values of talk straight, think smart and be yourself, everyone in the firm holds equal value, and everyone plays their role in supporting, encouraging and inspiring colleagues to do their best work.

At the same time, we recognise and reward individualism, celebrating the diversity of our people and supporting them to grow their practice and drive their own career advancement.

As well as client work, there is opportunity to broaden your horizons at the firm with fulfilling pro bono and charity projects. We have a regular social calendar full of wellbeing activities, charitable and social events too.