Paralegal (Post-Exchange)

About the role

The Team Real Estate (and particularly real estate development) is at the heart of Devonshires’ business, as it is with the major part of our client base. Within the Team, there are 18 dedicated partners working on a wide variety of property transactions with a broad range of clients from registered providers of social housing and care homes, through to private developers, acting on sites and developments from a handful of units to thousands to portfolio and street property acquisitions and disposals. Duties and Responsibilities Providing support to the other fee earners within the team including but not limited to: Management of multiple workflow trackers, calendar management (pertaining to completion/ AP1, Cancellation and SDLT submission deadlines). Delivering a quality service and meeting client expectations. Providing clients with progress reports as and when required. Submitting, reviewing, and interpreting priority searches Preparing and submitting SDLT returns and arranging payment within the statutory timescales. Preparing AP1 applications to minimise Requisitions and to deal with any Land Registry Requisitions that may arise. Assisting the team in dealing with enquiries raised day to day where required. Arranging for files to be closed down once all completions pertaining to that matter have been completed. Keeping tidy and accurate files, records, and trackers both in hard copy and electronically and ensure LEXCEL compliance. Meeting deadlines that will be set from time to time both internally and by clients. To provide support to other fee earners across the firm in the relation to the Post Exchange processes and to share knowledge as and when required. To follow departmental procedures, the Solicitors’ accounts rules and the Firm’s policies and procedures as detailed in the Staff Manual, including LEXCEL. This is not an exhaustive list and from time to time it may be necessary to vary these to meet the department and business needs.