NEW ROLE | Greater Manchester | Legal Assistant | 58808
My client, a large North West based law firm with offices throughout the UK, is seeking to appoint a Legal Assistant to join their Property team in Greater Manchester, supporting both Residential and Commercial Property teams.
On a day-to-day basis, you will be the support to both the Residential and Commercial Property teams, providing secretarial and admin support to enable them to operate at maximum efficiency. The role will also include reception duties.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Maintaining Fee Earners' diaries, arranging meetings and appointments.
2. Dealing with routine client correspondence and queries.
3. Creating and maintaining client records on the database, ensuring that all correspondence is up to date.
4. Producing client correspondence and enclosures for mailing, including client bills.
5. Dealing with completion funds/slips and ordering documents from Land Registry.
6. Handling search requests and monitoring returns, ensuring payments are made and stamp duty completion is processed.
7. Ensuring cleared balances on accounts before closure, requesting payments, and recording receipts of client monies.
8. Arranging searches, reports, and any other information as requested by the fee earner.
9. Organising post and taking it to the post office.
10. Typing, photocopying, filing, and managing emails and faxes.
In addition, the successful candidate can expect a salary ranging from £23,000 to £25,000.
To apply for this Legal Assistant role, please contact Tracy Carlisle at 0161 9147 357 or email t.carlisle@clayton-legal.co.uk.
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