Paralegal - Post Completion Team Real Estate - 6 month FTC

Full Job Description

About the Team

Gowling WLG is home to one of the UK's largest real estate practices with a team of more than 275 commercially-minded, innovative and pragmatic lawyers. We work alongside many of the sector's most successful companies and have helped to deliver numerous high profile projects, advising throughout their lifecycle. Our business is growing and we are looking for a Paralegal to be part of the centralised Real Estate Post Completion Team on a 6 month fixed term contract.

You will be responsible for:

• Bespoke Project Support – Dealing with bespoke instructions on large scale property schemes i.e. dealing with rent charge registrations and scheme management, supporting on lease reviews and any other bespoke matters received by the Post Completion Team.
• Preparation of Land Registry Applications - receiving, reviewing and preparing the Land Registry applications for REG and processing submissions using the Land Registry online portal.
• SDLT/LTT - preparation of SDLT/LTT forms using the online instruction form and Landscape 2, processing of payments and submissions and adhering to strict deadlines. Managing team diary entries to ensure deadlines are not missed.
• Legal Instructions – to provide legal support and advice to clients in all matters relating to resale enquiries including but not limited to deeds of variation, deeds of covenant, freehold reversion sales, land transfers and any other tasks requested by our clients.
• Title Reviews - to obtain and review office copy entries and title plans following registration of land/property and prepare registration report to send to Fee Earners.
• Finance – creating bill requests, finance forms and completing spreadsheets with financial information.
• Reporting – reporting to Fee Earners on progress of instructions received via Intapp and entering and updating data in spreadsheets for client reporting /updates.

About you

Working in an inclusive, sharing and collaborative culture you will be expected to play your part in ensuring the continuing success and growth of the team. Previous experience of working in a legal or office environment is desirable.

You should be able to:

• Manage your workload to tight deadlines, remain calm under pressure and prioritise your workload effectively.
• Work in a team environment – Play an active role within the team whilst demonstrating courtesy and respect for colleagues across the firm, consider ideas and points of view from others; is aware of own impact. When required, be able to work as part of a bigger project team or support across our UK Real Estate Practice.
• Communicate appropriately and confidently at all levels within the team and the wider business as well as with clients, agents and other parties in person, by phone, letter, email or other communication means.
• Use your initiative and creativity to generate solutions and to deliver client service.
• Apply a proactive and results focussed approach understanding the overall importance of what the team is trying to achieve.
• Demonstrate commitment to client service – produces high quality work and has the required technical knowledge and common sense to successfully deliver a consistent standard of work. 
• Demonstrate awareness of risk management process and ensure internal compliance procedures are adhered too.

You should have:

• Experience of working in a legal or office environment.
• Experience of working in a high volume team.
• Real Estate Legal knowledge and experience of dealing with the Land Registry Portal and Land Registry applications.
• Sound knowledge of the SDLT/LTT.
• Experience of legal drafting and title reviews.
• Sound technical/theoretical land law knowledge, and the ability to apply this practically.
• Experience of dealing with clients either on their own initiative or as part of a team.
• Experience of using a case management system.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 23 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• Generous annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment.  The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.  This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work.  Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

Any offers we make will be conditional subject to clearance by the SRA, evidence of eligibility to work in the UK and DBS clearance.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Jess Swingler, Resourcing Advisor ( )  

#LI-JS1 #LI-HYBRID