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Lead Paralegal, Real Estate Scotland

Dentons Canada

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Job summary

Join a leading legal firm as a lead paralegal in the Scottish Real Estate team. This role offers the chance to work flexibly and virtually while engaging in diverse legal tasks. Ideal candidates will have commercial real estate experience and a commitment to high-quality service. You will collaborate with a supportive team, manage your own cases, and contribute to the firm's strategy. This is an exciting opportunity for professional growth in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

  • 2+ years' commercial real estate experience required.
  • Experience in a lead or senior paralegal role helpful.
  • Minimum of 5 As at Scottish Highers or equivalent.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver high-quality service to clients as part of a team.
  • Manage own case load under supervision.
  • Provide general paralegal support and ensure tasks are completed on time.

Skills

Collaboration
Attention to Detail
Communication
Flexibility

Education

Scottish Highers
Qualification in Scottish Law

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Department: Legal Delivery Centre
Location: Virtual (but with option to attend our offices)
Duration: 12 Month FTC (possibility of permanent role for the right candidate)
Reports to: Head of LDC and Team Leader

The Department


Our Legal Delivery Centre (LDC) is a flexible and scalable paralegal resource for use across all of our UK, Ireland and Middle East offices and across the full spectrum of legal services. Meeting the ever increasing demands for disaggregated legal services, the LDC offers an exciting opportunity for development and the chance to undertake chargeable work that is varied, challenging and engaging. This is a great opportunity to join a growing team that is integral to the firm's strategy, whilst benefiting from working both virtually and flexibly – anyone located near to one of our UK offices is welcome to attend that office.

Dentons offers fabulous opportunities for paralegals - it won the 2019 and 2020 National Paralegal Awards Best Law Firm for Paralegal Development and was a finalist in 2021, and was commended in the Best Paralegal Business of the Year category in 2023. LDC paralegals won the Best Newcomer/Young Practitioner of the Year category 2022 and 2023.


Role


This is a great opportunity to join a growing team that is integral to the firm's strategy, whilst benefiting from being able to work virtually and flexibly. We welcome applications from across the UK for those seeking an alternative experience.

We are presently looking for a lead paralegal with 2+ years' of commercial real estate experience to join our focused Scottish Real Estate team of paralegals. The role will primarily involve billable real estate work, with time set aside weekly to provide support to the real estate Team Leader for the focused Scottish Real Estate paralegals.

Primarily assigned to our Scottish Real Estate team, from time to time there will be the opportunity to undertake work across the full spectrum of legal service areas. An opportunity to liaise with all business areas, the LDC offers valuable exposure across the firm and to some of the firm's major clients.

Whilst this is a virtual role with no expectation or requirement that you attend any of our office locations, for those who would like to experience the office environment and meet our hybrid teams, there is the opportunity to attend our offices.


Responsibilities


You will work as part of a team to deliver a high-quality service to our internal and external clients. Our approach is to create a supportive environment by working collaboratively as part of a team whilst also encouraging team members to operate with a effective self-management.

The work will include:

  • General paralegal support, ensuring projects and tasks are undertaken effectively and within the appropriate timescales (e.g. managing submission of applications to Registers of Scotland, HMLR, HMRC, third parties);
  • Data room management;
  • Due diligence on sales and acquisitions to include managing enquiries processes and collation of conveyancing searches;
  • LBTT, SDLT, searches, companies house;
  • Provision of legal services to a wide breadth of clients including the technical skills of drafting, negotiating, advising;
  • Management of own case load under supervision including effecting exchange and completion;
  • Use of legal technology and AI;
  • Internal and external reporting;
  • Providing support to the Team Leader to manage real estate Scotland projects;
  • Ensuring inbox tasks are allocated and escalate to the Team Leader if appropriate;
  • Staying in regular communication with the Team Leader to provide updates on the team's capacity and workload;
  • Ensuring data collection of tasks is collated monthly and review the data trends with the Team Leader;
  • Attending Scottish Governance meetings with the Team Leader and Practice Development Lawyers to discuss training needs and support required by the team;
  • Assistance with the training of new joiners and keep the training materials up to date;
  • Providing general support to the Scottish Real Estate paralegals.

It is essential that candidates are collaborative and committed to developing personally and professionally. A commitment to deliver high-quality focused services to our internal and external clients is essential, as is maintaining and developing those client relationships.

Through newly established ways of working, including an increased emphasis on technological solutions, you will be supported in managing some key tasks, giving you direct responsibility. Our approach is to create a supportive remote environment by working collaboratively as part of a team whilst also encouraging team members to operate with a degree of independence.


You will work closely with other members of this team as well as with our legal service areas, project management team and with clients. The team has a cooperative teamwork ethic and a well-regarded internal and external client management approach. It is essential that candidates are collaborative and committed to developing both personally and professionally. A commitment to deliver high-quality focused services is essential as is maintaining and developing both internal and external client relationships.
Ideal candidates will be people with energy and enthusiasm, consistently contributing to provide the highest levels of service whilst at the same time valuing having fun being part of a supportive and collegiate team

Required experience, skills and attributes

  • Minimum of 5 As at Scottish Highers (or equivalent);
  • A qualification in Scottish law (preferred);
  • 2+ years' commercial real estate experience (essential but may consider the equivalent length residential experience);
  • Experience in a lead or senior paralegal role (helpful but not essential);
  • Proficient knowledge of Microsoft office (especially Word, Excel and Outlook);
  • Experience of working with data rooms (helpful but not essential);
  • Ability to organise, prioritize, manage multiple responsibilities, and work well in demanding situations and to tight deadlines;
  • Ability to work accurately with high attention to detail;
  • Demonstrate motivation and initiative;
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to deal effectively with Partners and professionals across the firm;
  • An ability and willingness to be flexible;
  • Sociable and works well in a group setting.

Firm Profile

Across more than 80 countries, Dentons helps you grow, protect, operate and finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric, purpose-driven and committed to inclusion, diversity, equity and sustainability, we focus on what matters most to you. www.dentons.com

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to building an inclusive culture here at Dentons where our people can thrive, regardless of their background or circumstance. As well as being the right thing to do, it makes good business sense too. A richness of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives helps us best serve our clients and the communities in which we operate. You can find out more about inclusion and diversity at Dentons here: Inclusion and Diversity .

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, neurodiversity, disability, or with parental or caring responsibilities. We also offer flexible working hours.

During the application process, all applicants have the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at their best. Any information you share with us during the application process is treated in confidence.

While it is not a requirement that you inform your current manager of any internal applications, we would recommend that you do so.

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