Shakespeare Martineau

About Shakespeare Martineau

We are looking for a Paralegal to join our Birmingham based Property Finance team, part of the firm’s Real Estate group. You will work with the team to provide a quality service to clients and colleagues on a broad range of property finance matters. Your key duties will be: providing assistance to a large team of experienced lawyers on a broad range of property finance work, as well as supporting on banking aspects of the transactions, including document production; this includes; reviewing property due diligence preparing reports on title preparing leases acting for landlords amending leases acting for tenants handling a caseload of large and often complex deals alongside straightforward matters and plots sales disclosures assisting on ‘problem’ cases from banks, maintaining spreadsheets and attending regular review meetings running cases efficiently and cost effectively and within strict service level agreements as required by the client dealing with clients and third parties in a professional manner, maintaining close and regular contact as required maintaining good file management, including electronic and paper storage, archiving and filing dealing with general correspondence and administrative work efficiently handling telephone enquiries where appropriate producing forms and documentation completing registrations at Companies House and Land Registry, and dealing with any requisitions drafting documents, including reports on title providing assistance in the team’s regular billing procedures attending and participating in internal meetings with the team to discuss ‘best practice’ procedures completing SDLT returns and ensuring payment deadlines are met adhering to strict deadlines at all times Skills and experience you will have: a minimum of 12 months’ previous experience within a Real Estate team is essential, ideally in a paralegal role previous experience in Real Estate Finance matters, both in property and banking is desirable previous experience of using a case management system strong IT skills and fast, accurate typing ability Key competencies you will need: a desire to exceed client expectations good attention to detail and accuracy the ability to work well in a team and develop good working relationships with colleagues and others good communication and negotiation skills, with the confidence to liaise openly and clearly with colleagues and clients excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, accustomed to using your own initiative About you – you will be: highly enthusiastic, willing to go the extra mile, with a positive, “can do” attitude proactive, keen to learn and interested in driving your own career progression a team player, supportive and respectful to colleagues across the firm Additional information Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here. Equal opportunities Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. < Back to available positions

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Legal Form: LLP

Company Type: Private Practice / Firm

Company Size: 501 - 1000

Revenue: 50 - 100 million (USD)

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