Legal Assistant

About Eversheds
Sutherland:
The Eversheds Sutherland Real Estate practice has status and substance. External commentators often refer to us as one of the largest Real Estate practices and there are very few firms that have such a varied portfolio of work. We aim to be first to the market for solutions for our clients and work seamlessly across borders, integrating our specialists as they need them.

Our Core Real Estate team works across the world, providing clients with the benefit of local representation coupled with national and international resource. As part of the Core Real Estate team based in Cardiff, we focus on advising numerous commercial real estate clients particularly within the corporate real estate, investor, finance and energy sectors.

Key responsibilities:

You will be responsible for:
•Assisting with day to day transactional work. The work will be primarily landlord and tenant, with a large degree of responsibility for routine estate management transactions but you will also be required to assist with disposals and acquisitions.
•Updating client reports, responding to client deeds queries, dealing with the administration of those title deeds and preparing title and lease reports.
•Assisting with the management of project data rooms.
•Preparing title packs and replies to Commercial Property Standard Enquiries.
•Undertaking post completion work by preparing SDLT forms and making Land Registry applications.

Skills and experience:
•You will have completed the LPC
•Paralegal experience in an office environment is important and experience within a real estate department would be desirable but not essential
•Experience of dealing with your own case load and meeting and managing deadlines is desirable.
•You will possess excellent IT skills

Key competencies:

You will be a committed team player with excellent communication and organisational skills as well as being able to meet strict deadlines. You will also have the ability to work under pressure in addition to being flexible and resilient.

Salary: . Date posted: 25/07/2017