This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a nationally recognised team who primarily advise and assist Registered Providers of Social Housing across the country in the delivery of new affordable housing.
Our work covers a broad spectrum including site/unit acquisition, planning and construction advice, procurement and governance advice, future sales (plots and assets), funding to support future delivery, stock rationalisation, commercial leases, auction sales and keeping up to date with relevant legislative and regulatory changes in the sector which may affect or clients.
The Housing and Regeneration team is one of the largest in the country, and advises on all types of development transactions—from forward funded schemes, s106 acquisitions, golden brick transactions, land led schemes, options/conditional contracts, overage provisions and large scale estate regeneration schemes, and stock rationalisations to general asset management work. It also has a very successful housing management department supporting housing associations with landlord/tenant matters.
Our team has a real passion to support our clients achieve the best strategic and commercial outcomes ensuring affordable homes are available for the future. We are friendly, approachable and supportive, encouraging our team to develop and gain new skills to move forward with their careers.
The role
We are seeking a self-motivated and committed paralegal to join our team working on matters with a commercial property and real estate transactional focus. The paralegal will sit within our real estate investment team, which forms part of the Housing and Regeneration Division, in either in our London or Winchester offices.
The main role and responsibilities will include helping a partner and solicitors in aspects of their casework including (although, this is not an exhaustive list):
- Assisting fee earners;
- Working to a chargeable hours target;
- General case management;
- Drafting general correspondence and documents;
- Preparing and drafting reports to the client;
- Liaison with clients and analysing evidence received in order to advise the client;
- Carrying out Land Registry searches;
- Submitting SDLT returns;
- Proof reading documents;
- Undertaking research; and
- Administrative tasks such as invoicing.
Supervision, support and relevant training will be provided although the successful applicant will also be encouraged, where appropriate, to use their own initiative.
About you
- A 2:1 undergraduate degree
- Ideally an LPC or BVC qualification (LPC would be preferred but is not essential)
- Strong IT skills
- Ability to adhere to and manage deadlines
- Strong written skills
- Good administration skills and
- Excellent communication skills
Candidates will also be expected to demonstrate at interview that they:
- Ability to work well as part of a team
- Can follow procedures and direction with precision
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to be well organised
- Have good attention to detail
- Ability to be proactive and
- Ability to be self-motivated.
Interview process
- The first stage will either be a 20 minute telephone interview or we will ask you to complete an online video screening which will involve recording your answers to some role related questions.
- The second stage will be an online team’s interview, which can last up to 1 hour. After your interview, you will be asked to complete a role related test. This can last up to 45 minutes. Please ensure that you have enough time to complete the test when booking in for an interview.
- We will aim to deliver outcomes within 2 weeks following the completion of your interview.
