Real Estate Paralegal

The Role

As a Paralegal you will gain exposure and be given the opportunity to assist Partners and the wider team on a variety of real estate transactions.

This role would suit a Paralegal who aspires to progress their legal career in the long term. You will be given an opportunity to broaden and develop your skills with a view to assuming greater levels of responsibility.

You will assist fee earners with the following:

• Reviewing and preparing documents to issue on sales of Properties, leases and funding transactions
• Managing data and records
• Assisting with admin preparation
• Preparing documents for completion
• Drafting forms and legal documentation
• Assist with obtaining and distributing updates to progress transactions
• Communicating orally and in writing with a variety of recipients
• Providing support to fee earners

The Team

Our national Real Estate team has an outstanding reputation for its technical and commercial expertise across all disciplines, including commercial development, commercial investment, mixed-use development, landlord and tenant, retail and leisure, finance, real estate litigation, planning and environmental.

The Leeds team has an enviable reputation for specialising in real estate development, finance, investment and joint ventures and complex real estate development matters including town centre regeneration, retail office and distribution parks and residential promotion and collaboration. Clients include major house builders, public sector sponsors and occupiers, investors, financiers, and corporate occupiers.

The Person

We are interested in speaking with candidates who are enthusiastic, have a keen interest in law, a thirst for learning; enjoy working in a team, able to manage their own workload, and who have an eye for detail.

Our desired candidate will have a degree in law and have ideally passed the LPC or be working towards a post-graduate legal qualification.

We are also open to applicants who are experienced ’career paralegals’ or experienced legal secretaries who have demonstrable paralegal experience gained in a real estate team. Please note, candidates with similar experience or strength in related areas of law will be considered.

In particular, we look for the following attributes:

• Minimum of 12 months paralegal or secretarial experience assisting on real estate transactions, in particular; preparing first drafts, making amendments, undertaking SDLT tax returns & SDLT searches and general day to day land registry activities.
• First class communication skills both written and verbal.
• Ability to produce documents efficiently and with ease is essential.
• Willingness to learn and develop colleague & client relationships.
• Excellent levels of accuracy.
• Attention to detail and excellent organisation skills.
• Experience of Microsoft Office is essential.

The Benefits

We offer a competitive remuneration package for this role. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). With Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to help you develop new skills and progress your career. You will have ongoing support, coaching and feedback to help you succeed.

We are Gateley

We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it’s about attitude too.

The ’Gateley Story’ is the story of our people and our culture. It is what has got us to where we are today as a successful business and it’s the driving force behind the Gateley Team Spirit and the values that have shaped it. We have a set of shared internal values that capture what the Gateley Team Spirit is and this includes five elements that bind us all together as one Gateley: Ambitious for Success, Forward Thinking, Room to Breathe, Trusted to Do and Working Together. . Every year across the group, we recognise members of our team that have gone and above and beyond and have lived these shared values. They are recognised at our annual Gateley Team Spirit awards.

Diversity, inclusion and well being

Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part 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, sexual orientation, disability, or 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.