Company Description
Poole Alcock Solicitors has been providing legal services in Cheshire for over 130 years, we offer a personal and efficient service. Our team of highly qualified legal experts specialize in various areas of law to provide the best advice for both business and private clients.
Due to continued growth, we are excited to expand our team and are seeking experienced Residential Conveyancers to join our thriving practice. If you're passionate about property law and enjoy managing your own caseload from instruction through to completion, we would love to hear from you!
Role Description & Duties
You will be responsible for managing the legal aspects of residential property transactions, including sales, purchases, and remortgages. You will also handle legal documentation, conduct communication with clients and other parties, and address any legal issues related to property conveyancing.
* Ensure the delivery of excellent customer service to all clients including good communication, timely response to correspondence and proactive management of client work.
* Ensure personal and team compliance with professional conduct rules and internal policies and procedures.
* Manage financial aspects of client work effectively and work within parameters communicated in relation to write offs.
* To ensure that personal development is sustained.
* To ensure achievement of financial billing targets for client work are achieved for your team.
* To ensure achievement of billing and gross profit targets for your team.
* Meet targets for recovery of cash from clients for your team.
* Deliver effective supervision to any staff reporting into you. Complete file reviews, on schedule, for any fee earners requested.
* Ensure that new matter opening targets are met for your team
* Ensure personal and team manages files in a manner at all times consistent with any SLAs agreed with referrers of work
* Participate regularly in business development activities to stimulate growth in caseload.
* Ensure personally and team conversion of enquiries into new business. Achieving conversion targets and working with others and business development personally and ensuring all the team captures data relating to enquiry handling in a manner consistent with the firm’s internal procedures and communication of this data to the Business Development Manager.
* Be proactive in assisting the firm sell more services to existing clients directly or through cross selling.
* To ensure both you and the team are proficient in the effective use of the practice and case management system and any other technologies implemented to deliver personal and firm objectives.
* Ensure the integrity of data for contacts, clients and matters which your team work on.
Package
* Competitive salary & rewarding bonus structure
* Additional annual leave plus statutory bank holidays. Additionally, the firm ordinarily closes between Christmas and New Year albeit the firm reserves the unfettered right to withdraw this additional leave as required by business needs. You will also get an extra day’s holiday for your birthday and length of service.
* Entitlement to join the company pension scheme
* Entitlement to participate in the firm’s cash healthcare scheme
* Enhanced maternity pay (subject to conditions)
Qualifications
* Legal Consulting, Legal Document Preparation, and Communication skills
* Experience in Residential Conveyancing and knowledge of property law
* Ability to handle legal issues related to property transactions
* Strong understanding of conveyancing processes and regulations
* Excellent organisational and time management skills
* Attention to detail and accuracy in documentation