Legal Secretary/Paralegal - Commercial Property - Linklife Ltd : Job Details

As a Legal Secretary/Paralegal you will support our highly experienced team who deals with a broad caseload of Commercial Property matters. Duties will include; opening of files, preparing client care documents, liaising with clients to complete their onboarding process including ID checks and payment on account; file closures including review of ledgers to check for balances and accounting to clients as appropriate, reviewing documents on any paper file to send to clients and uploading completed registrations to lender portals as appropriate. The role will also include some light reception duties to cover where appropriate and answering of external calls.

There may be scope to increase these responsibilities depending on experience and workloads at the time alongside the needs of the wider team.

The ideal candidate must be highly organised and does need previous commercial property experience, be a team player and an excellent communicator.

Experience, skills and attributes

• Experience of supporting a team of Property Lawyers
• Touch, audio and digital dictation typing (preferably 60 WPM)
• Production of letters and legal documents
• Handling incoming telephone queries
• General office duties such as photocopying, filing, scanning
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• High level of attention to detail
• IT literacy - Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook etc.
• Strong communication skill
• Enjoy working in a fast paced and fun environment