Conveyancing Fee Earner

Fee Earner with previous experience in conveyancing required to join our busy and well-respected legal conveyancing company in Chelmsford. In your role as fee earner, you will be confident in managing your work load and your conveyancing assistants which sit at different levels of experience. The successful candidate for this fee earner role will be confident in time management, organisation and prioritising in relation to all files and all conveyancing assistants assigned to them.

The Role

• Regular communication with developers/negotiators to identify targeted exchanges
• Hive regular updates to developers/negotiators for progressing of plots
• Responding to client instructions and sending all initial paperwork
• Ensuring Help to Buy requirements are met if required
• Carry out OS2 and Bankruptcy searches and ensuring these remain in date
• Issuing contracts and dealing with any related sale or part exchange enquiries
• Setting up a file in readiness for completion
• Dealing with all financial aspects of a transaction; including checking and signing off proof of funds.
• Carrying out and checking pre-contract searches
• Receiving and checking mortgage instructions and special conditions
• Preparing transfer and mortgage deeds;
• Site visits and attending launches and shows where required
• Deal with associated transactions e.g. px files, related sale files and mortgages.
• Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm

The Person

• Qualified fee earner with minimum 1 year’s conveyancing experience
• Strong conveyancing experience of residential and new builds
• Excellent communication skills
• Confident in ability to meet deadlines

Benefits to you

• Competitive salary £30 - £50k dependant on experience
• Generous holidays including bank holidays and Xmas shutdown
• Bonus scheme
• Free parking
• Excellent career opportunities to progress in your legal career
• Birthdays off
• Breakfast items, hot & cold drinks
• Free eye tests, physio assessments & massage allowance
• Lovely working environment

If you have not heard back from us within 10 days your application has unsuccessful.