Post Completions Paralegal

The role

This is an excellent opportunity for a Post Completions Paralegal to join us and provide first class support within the post completions team of our Real Estate Department.

This is a busy and varied role, flexibility and strong organisational skills are essential.

Role responsibility

• Preparing, drafting and submitting Land Registry applications, including proof reading and quality checking documents
• Drafting and submitting Companies House charge registration applications
• Calculating, drafting and submitting SDLT returns for residential and commercial transactions, processing payments, dealing with internal stakeholders and clients as required
• Carrying out Land Registry and Land Charges (including bankruptcy) searches
• Downloading Land Registry and Companies House documents
• Serving notices on residential transactions (eg: to landlords and insurers after charge/assignment)
• Dealing with requisitions raised by the Land Registry and Companies House, liaising with other parties in respect of issues raised during applications to the Land Registry and pursuant to requisitions
• Responding to HMRC on SDLT return issues
• Legal Research  - advising fee earners on pre-submission and registration queries
• Sending documents requested by clients & other parties to other parties and arranging courier services where necessary
• Any other tasks that may be required from time to time to support fee earners and client service needs

About you

Ideally you will be able to demonstrate;

• Previous experience within a similar role with exposure to post completions processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to communicate confidently at all levels with both internal and external stakeholders.
• The ability to work in a deadline driven, high volume environment, managing your own workload.
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills.
• Proactivity with the ability to anticipate problems and develop solutions.
• Strong attention to detail, even when working to tight deadlines.
• The ability to handle all communications and processes in an efficient and timely manner
• The ability to navigate and use on line platforms as necessary including Land Registry, Companies House and HMRC, PLC and Lexis

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.