Legal Administrator

Job title:

Legal Administrator

Company

Birketts

Job description

Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, we have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals based in Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: property, corporate services, litigation and private client advisory.We are defined by our Next Level Law proposition. We work with our clients as a proactive partner, horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes, challenges or opportunities that they may face.Next Level Law is also applied to our people. Our collegiate culture means everyone is encouraged to achieve their next level in everything they do. RollOnFriday recently ranked us as the 5th best law firm to work at in 2024.With our ambition to succeed, comes a strong desire to make a positive contribution to the communities we serve, and we are committed to delivering the objectives set out in our ESG strategy. Diversity plays an integral part in all that we do, with female partners comprising 40% of our partnership.
The departmentThe Real Estate Investment Team at Birketts is expanding its core team! We are seeking a Legal Administrator to come and join us.Together, as a collaborative firm, we have close to 1000 people working with us and we are ranked highly in the Legal 500 across all areas we practice in. We are people orientated, offering a dynamic, progressive and supportive culture where you can learn from our Partners and Senior Associates who are experts in their field.Our Real Estate Investment team is dedicated to acting for some of the most prestigious and sophisticated real estate investors globally.
AccountabilitiesPlaying an important role within the Real Estate Investment team you will be responsible for:

• File opening including checking compliance requirements, setting up paper and e-files and folders, conflict searches obtaining title documents, Land Registry searches, Companies House documentation
• Preparation of client care correspondence and documentation in accordance with our firm’s compliance requirements and client service level arrangements
• To be proficient in a variety of software packages such as Microsoft Word and Excel to produce correspondence, documents and spreadsheets
• Preparation of Land Registry applications and dealing with any requisitions raised following completion (including form preparation, scanning and uploading of documentation and correspondence);
• File closing in accordance with our client’s requirements and compliance standards
• Scheduling and managing deeds to ensure records are kept up to date.

The candidateThe role would suit an ambitious and highly efficient administrator, who enjoys working as part of a team to help provide professional support to a group of fee earners and the wider fee lawyers.

• You will be enthusiastic and well organised individual with a positive attitude and excellent communication skills. Excellent IT ability will be required, with good knowledge of MS Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook)
• You will have strong time management skills, able to manage a varied workload and work efficiently and effectively under pressure and to deadlines
• Show initiative when responding to queries and actively try to seek solutions to problems
• To support and build working relationships with your own fee earners as well as other members of the team and to actively work for the interests of the whole team
• To support and build working relationships with your colleagues in the team and to actively get involved in working activities within the team.

Equal opportunitiesAt Birketts, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success, development, and wellbeing of our colleagues, helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth. Alongside a flexible and inclusive work environment, we offer the following core benefits:

• Starting at 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays (rising with service up to a maximum of 30 days)
• Long Service holiday award – 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
• Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee)
• Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme
• Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
• Life Assurance – 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
• Paid CSR Day
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Subsidised gym membership
• Electric car scheme
• Dress for your Day Policy

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.Birketts is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is unequivocal: we do not tolerate discrimination based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or sexual orientation.We pride ourselves on being an inclusive organisation that actively promotes equality of opportunity for all, valuing the right mix of talent, skills, and potential. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates, and selection for roles is based solely on individual merit.

Expected salary

Location

Norwich

Job date

Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:14:50 GMT

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