Paralegal Apprentice

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Description

We are a legal and professional services group, with over 580 professional advisers. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. We proudly won ’UK Law Firm of the Year’ at The British Legal Awards 2019.

We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face.

The Team

Our Housebuilding Team specialises in residential development - and nothing else.

With over 230 specialists, we have the largest residential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition to disposal service. The team acts for national and regional housebuilders, promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to 6,500 new homes.

Each of our plot sales hubs in the South, the Midlands and the North on average handle approximately 4,000 plots sales per annum. Each Plot Sales Hub comprises four teams who work together to support plot sale transactions: site set up; plot sales; part exchange; and infrastructure.

Within our hubs, our plot sales team has 135 experts who work exclusively for housebuilder clients on conveyancing work. Each conveyancer is focused on delivering a high level of service that place clients front and centre. We invest in our people, recruiting and retaining the best in the market. We work hard in creating an enjoyable workplace culture that encourages the sharing of knowledge and experience; requires regular training on the law and developments in the sector.

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit talented paralegal apprentices to join our residential development team in Leeds. This is an excellent opportunity to gain some hands-on legal experience alongside a team of highly regarded professionals, and to work with some large commercial clients.

We will provide full training and support for these positions, including allocating dedicated supervisors and mentors to the successful candidates.

Role

The role will develop with training and experience, but we expect the successful to be involved with assisting fee earners in some of the below aspects

• Managing data and records
• Reviewing and preparing documents
• Collating completion papers
• Drafting forms and legal documentation
• Communicating orally and in writing with a variety of recipients
• Providing support to Plot Conveyancers and fee earners
  
  

Key Skills & Experience

Our successful candidates will need to have at least five GCSE’s graded A* - C/9-4, or equivalent, and have achieved, or be on track to achieve, three A-Levels graded A* - C or equivalent.

Successful candidates will be required to take the Land Law module during the first year of their apprenticeship.

He/she Will Demonstrate The Following Attributes

• strong communication skills both written and verbal
• the ability to work as part of a team
• a keen interest in property law
• ability and willingness to learn
• attention to detail
• strong organisational skills
• good IT skills
• discretion and professionalism
  

Diversity, Inclusion and Well-Being

Diversity, inclusion and well-being are important parts of Gateley’s culture and values.

We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, disability, and culture.

We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone’s potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.

We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions.