Legal Assistant - Real Estate Development

We are currently recruiting a Legal Assistant to join our growing Development team in Manchester.

In return we will invest in you. We want you to be successful. You will develop your technical and commercial skills through bespoke knowhow and development programmes ensuring you exceed all expectations. We have a flat hierarchy and you will be a highly valued member of the team and firm and we will ensure your hard work is recognised

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You will receive a competitive basic salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

As a Legal Assistant your day to day remit includes:

• Draft residential contracts and residential plot leases;
• Issue plot sale packs;
• Deal with enquiries on each site including title, searches and development enquiries;
• Provide client with updates throughout
• Engross documents;
• Draft completion statements and TA13 forms;
• Liaise with seller's lender for redemption funds and letters of consent/DS1's;
• Update plots tracker; and
• Provide more generalised secretarial-type admin support for the Manchester Development Team (working alongside the team's existing, Bristol-based, secretarial resource), to include:-

1. Document management and handling correspondence;
2. Scanning, filing, file-opening/closing;
3. Processing invoices to clients and dealing with straightforward client queries;
4. Assembling electronic and hard-copy engrossments;
5. Deeds scheduling;
6. Uploading documents to (and downloading documents from) extranets.

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by technical excellence, with a willingness to embrace team working and a passion for client service. You will be able to demonstrate a similar supportive, flexible and driven ethos and will have accumulated the following experience and skills:

• Previous legal assistant experience,
• Previous Real Estate/Plot Sales/Conveyancing experience is desirable.
• Excellent communication skills (both oral and written).
• Accuracy, good organisational skills and flexibility.
• Ability to work well as part of a busy team.
• Good knowledge of Word and Outlook is required and experience in Excel, PowerPoint and iManage would be beneficial.?

TLT is committed to creating a diverse working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate. We welcome applications from people with disabilities and as a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on

We're an ambitious UK law firm built around the needs of our high profile clients. With over 1000 employees and 100 partners across our six UK offices, we've grown considerably in the last three years - and so have our revenues. Open-minded? Definitively. Forward-focused? Absolutely. An energetic firm with an entrepreneurial, collaborative culture, we're always looking to recruit highly talented individuals with the drive to succeed. So if you're dynamic, determined and looking for a firm where you can develop your skills, join us and we'll give you everything you need to thrive.