Real Estate Paralegal

About the role

Make a Real Impact

Bevan Brittan is a leading commercial law firm. Alongside our recognised expertise in housing, local government, and health and social care, we are specialists in the construction, energy and resource management, higher education and financial services sectors.

Supported by our valued business services professionals, our award-winning and growing legal teams provide almost 2,000 organisations with commercial, corporate, property, finance, regulatory, employment and litigation (commercial and clinical negligence) legal and advisory services.

As a responsible business, we embrace four values: Relationships, Reputation, Responsible and Results. These give us a sense of purpose. They influence the decisions we make and how we work with each other. Importantly, they motivate us to deliver meaningful outcomes for our clients and the communities that we're part of.

Consistently recognised as one of The Times Best Law Firms and highly ranked across the legal directories, we are proud of our hard-earned reputation. Our 2025/26 financial results confirmed both revenue and profit growth for a decisional year, ensuring our ability to continue investing in our people.

Looking to the future, we're targeting ambitious growth and success. And we're looking for the best people to be part of it.

Join a team of experts and progressive thinkers A vacancy has arisen for a paralegal to join our Real Estate team, to be based in our Bristol or Leeds office (with flexible hybrid-working).

The role

This role will involve supporting our lawyers who advise clients across various aspects of commercial property, but with a particular emphasis on acquisitions, disposals, development agreements and the full range of landlord and tenant matters. . As a paralegal in the team, you'll not only enhance your technical

skills and legal knowledge, but also gain valuable opportunities to

meet clients and build your professional network. You would be joining a busy team and would have the chance to be part of, and help shape, our ambitious growth plans as a firm. On offer is plenty of variation in the work and plenty of support from both the property team and the wider firm to help you develop.

What we are looking for from you

The successful applicant will possess the following skills, which are

key to the role

Prior experience in dealing with leases, licences to occupy, licences to assign, licences to underlet, tenancies at will, licences to alter and other ancillary landlord and tenant documentation (under supervision) advantageous. The ability to conduct basic title investigation, review searches and enquiries, raise enquiries and report to the client with minimal supervision

Experience in dealing with all aspects of post completion

including SDLT forms and submissions and Land Registry applications and requisitions (under supervision) Excellent organisational skills to manage and prioritise own caseload (with supervision) and assist fee earners with their workloads and priorities Good verbal and written communication skills

Experience in attending regular multi-party client update calls

preferable (with senior fee earner assistance) advantageous. The ability to assist with the management of team billing responsibilities