Legal Secretary
- Recruiter
- Gateley
- Location
- Reading
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 11 Aug 2022
- Closes
- 19 Aug 2022
- Sectors
- Admin, Secretarial & PA
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Title Legal Secretary
Closing Date 01-Sep-2022
Position Full Time
Business Entity Gateley Legal
Department Residential Development
Location Reading - United Kingdom
Job Type Experienced Hire
Description
Gateley is a legal and professional services group, with over 580 professional advisers.
We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond.
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.
The Team
Our Housebuilding Team specialises in residential development - and nothing else.
With over 230 specialists, we have the largest residential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition to disposal service. The team acts for national and regional housebuilders, promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to 6,500 new homes.
We are proud to have worked on the largest modular development in the UK.
Each of our plot sales hubs in the South, the Midlands and the North on average handle approximately 4,000 plots sales per annum. Each Plot Sales Hub comprises four teams who work together to support plot sale transactions: site set up; plot sales; part exchange; and infrastructure.
The site set up stage is key to ensuring that plot sales run as smoothly as possible, reducing the length of sales times and avoiding delays. Each site set up team consists of experienced lawyers who understand the process from acquisition through to plot sales.
The Role
We are looking to recruit a proactive Legal Secretary who can provide support to fee earners and partners across our Residential Development team.
You will assist fee earners who act for housebuilders and developers dealing with residential development sites. The team specialise in dealing with land acquisitions, land disposals, strategic land options, promotion agreements, affordable housing and long-term development projects. They are also experienced in dealing with funding arrangements for development site acquisitions.
The role will be based at our Reading office. The role is predominately office based but can be flexible.
Key Skills and Experience
The successful candidate will be confident liaising with stakeholders, colleagues and clients, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless secretarial support service.
In particular we look for the following attributes:
Previous legal secretarial experience working within either a residential or commercial property team is essential.
Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is essential.
Previous experience of high-volume document production.
Complete SDLT forms
Land Registry forms
Operate Searchflow
Competent working knowledge of Microsoft Word is highly essential.
First class communication skills both written and verbal.
Excellent levels of accuracy.
Initiative to learn and ability to self-motivate.
Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines with the ability to remain calm.
Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills.
Always demonstrate discretion and the ability to always maintain absolute confidentiality.
IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.
Diversity, Inclusion and Well Being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.
We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, disability, and culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
The successful candidate will have their own workload, be able to work with minimal supervision, manage their own time and work well under pressure.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.
Closing Date 01-Sep-2022
Position Full Time
Business Entity Gateley Legal
Department Residential Development
Location Reading - United Kingdom
Job Type Experienced Hire
Description
Gateley is a legal and professional services group, with over 580 professional advisers.
We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond.
We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.
The Team
Our Housebuilding Team specialises in residential development - and nothing else.
With over 230 specialists, we have the largest residential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition to disposal service. The team acts for national and regional housebuilders, promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to 6,500 new homes.
We are proud to have worked on the largest modular development in the UK.
Each of our plot sales hubs in the South, the Midlands and the North on average handle approximately 4,000 plots sales per annum. Each Plot Sales Hub comprises four teams who work together to support plot sale transactions: site set up; plot sales; part exchange; and infrastructure.
The site set up stage is key to ensuring that plot sales run as smoothly as possible, reducing the length of sales times and avoiding delays. Each site set up team consists of experienced lawyers who understand the process from acquisition through to plot sales.
The Role
We are looking to recruit a proactive Legal Secretary who can provide support to fee earners and partners across our Residential Development team.
You will assist fee earners who act for housebuilders and developers dealing with residential development sites. The team specialise in dealing with land acquisitions, land disposals, strategic land options, promotion agreements, affordable housing and long-term development projects. They are also experienced in dealing with funding arrangements for development site acquisitions.
The role will be based at our Reading office. The role is predominately office based but can be flexible.
Key Skills and Experience
The successful candidate will be confident liaising with stakeholders, colleagues and clients, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless secretarial support service.
In particular we look for the following attributes:
Previous legal secretarial experience working within either a residential or commercial property team is essential.
Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is essential.
Previous experience of high-volume document production.
Complete SDLT forms
Land Registry forms
Operate Searchflow
Competent working knowledge of Microsoft Word is highly essential.
First class communication skills both written and verbal.
Excellent levels of accuracy.
Initiative to learn and ability to self-motivate.
Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines with the ability to remain calm.
Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills.
Always demonstrate discretion and the ability to always maintain absolute confidentiality.
IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.
Diversity, Inclusion and Well Being
Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values.
We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, disability, and culture.
We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.
We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.
The successful candidate will have their own workload, be able to work with minimal supervision, manage their own time and work well under pressure.
Additional Information
If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.