The vacancy
We are seeking a Paralegal to join our Residential Property (Leasehold enfranchisement team) in Southampton
We are different - although a Top 250 Law firm, we strive to be 'Human First' in everything we do. This means we truly care about our teams as well as our clients. You’ll find a Career with Moore Barlow rewarding with plenty of opportunity for personal growth and development.
Our Leasehold Enfranchisement team provides expert legal services to clients navigating complex leasehold matters, including lease extensions, collective enfranchisement, and right to manage claims. With extensive experience in leasehold reform law, the team guides clients through intricate legal processes, anticipating potential challenges to ensure smooth and efficient outcomes.
We work with a diverse range of clients, including private leaseholders, residents’ associations, and groups of tenants seeking to extend their leases or collectively purchase their building’s freehold. We also advise landlords, institutional lenders, and property investors, offering strategic guidance to national and regional housebuilders, developers, landowners, and charities. Our team provides tailored legal support to help clients understand their rights and obligations, ensuring compliance with leasehold legislation and achieving the best possible outcomes.
Your Role
Responsibilities
As a Paralegal in our Leasehold Enfranchisement team, you will play a key role in supporting a wide range of matters, including lease extensions, collective enfranchisement, and right to manage claims. Your responsibilities will include:
1. Client onboarding and file opening
2. Reviewing leases and preparing legal documents
3. Drafting Land Registry forms and handling requisitions
4. Assisting with freehold project management
5. Serving notices on multiple leaseholders
6. Supporting completions and liaising with clients, landlords, and third parties to ensure a smooth process
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your legal expertise in a specialist area of property law while working within a friendly and highly skilled team.
What We Look For
Perhaps you are an experienced Paralegal who has worked in a Residential Property team within a law firm and are looking for a new challenge. You should have an understanding of property transactions, excellent client service skills, and a naturally organised and efficient approach to your work.
We are a fun and enthusiastic team, driven by the desire to provide outstanding Client service. If you have the above skills and are seeking to join a friendly team, then we would strongly encourage you to apply.
Who We Are
We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.
What We Can Offer
Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.
As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.
In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.
We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.
If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.
Our values
Human first
Stronger together
Lead the way
Make it happen
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