Legal Assistant

About The Role

With our continued growth, we are recruiting for a Legal Assistant or Paralegal to join our Residential Conveyancing department This team deals with mostly local sales, purchases and transfers on behalf of existing and new clients (receiving recommendations from existing clients and other departments within the firm). This position will be based in our Cardiff office, where you will provide in-depth business support to our busy conveyancing team In this role, you will play a crucial part in supporting the team's work by:

• Drafting and formatting of letters, documents, and forms such as sale contracts and exchange and completion letters.
• Conduct searches (Local Authority, Land Registry, Insolvency, Compliance Regulation)
• Being a first point of contact for any administrative and business support requirements for fee earners, anticipating the teams needs where possible.
• Supporting the file opening process for the team, including compliance checks.
• Assisting with the preparation of all financial transactions as require, including new matter quotes.
• Filtering client and agent queries, at times being the first point of contact for clients.

Joining our Residential Conveyancing team gives you access to a career pathway as a Licensed Conveyancer via the CLC qualification. Individuals can enrol on the Level 4 CLC apprenticeship and if successful progress onto the Level 6 CLC apprenticeship whilst in a fee-earning conveyancing role. Accessing these qualifications requires a minimum of 12 months service and a career development plan with a sponsoring Partner

About You

As a Legal Assistant you will have:

• Sound knowledge of IT systems including full Microsoft Office suite and Teams.
• Excellent attention to detail in all aspects of your work, with confident typing abilities.
• Strong communication and organisation skills.
• Experience in a client facing environment would be advantageous.
• Former experience within a legal/professional services environment would be desirable, and previous experience within a conveyancing department would be highly desirable.
• Experience in case management systems is preferable but not essential.

About Us

Benefits of working with us:

• 28 days' annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Annual support staff bonus scheme
• Pension scheme (4% employer contributions)
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash-plan (providing you with financial support for private medical, dental and wellbeing), as well as 1/3 gym membership contributions, eye care and flu vaccination clinics.
• Season ticket loans
• Electric vehicle scheme
  
• Cycle to work scheme

Is HCR the smart move for you?
HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Why HCR people love their jobs?
Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our "Passion for People" lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy create a warm e?nvironment in which to thrive.

What career progression will HCR offer you?
HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?
As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 50, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service, we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 1000 lawyers and support staff, including more than 180 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With 13 offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly across all our regions, and are well-respected as a regional firm with a strong London and international presence.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients. We are privileged to be an armed forces-friendly organisation.

We want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any reasonable adjustments we can make at any stage of the recruitment process to support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV through our careers website.

A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership.