Legal Administrator

JR United Kingdom; Brighton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading commercial law firm is looking for a Legal Administrator to join their Real Estate Team in Brighton. The successful candidate will handle administrative tasks related to licensing and support the overall operations of the team. This role offers benefits including a contributory pension and flexible benefits scheme, emphasizing a strong foundation in legal administration.

Benefits

Contributory Pension

Group Life

Private Medical Insurance

25 days' holiday

Flexible benefits scheme

Qualifications

• Previous legal administration experience is required.
• Ideally experience in Council/local authority licensing.
• Familiarity with real estate law and deeds administration.

Responsibilities

• Filing and logging correspondence and premises licenses.
• Supporting the licensing team and maintaining data.
• Assisting with financial matters and project administration.

Skills

Legal administration

Data management

Communication

Job description

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Our client is an award-winning, full service, commercial law firm and they are rapidly developing a national reputation for its innovative approach to delivering legal services. They operate in the financial services, leisure, retail & consumer goods, technology & media, renewables, housing and public sectors. Their specialisms are real estate, banking and finance, commercial, corporate, employment, dispute resolution and litigation.

The Job:

On behalf of our client we are seeking a Legal Administrator which will sit within their Real Estate Team, based in central Glasgow.

This is working in a large and busy team and you responsibilities will include:

• Filing of correspondence and premises licences.
• Logging premises licences details onto a case management system.
• Closing files via both a case management system and financial application.
• Photocopying, certifying and posting premises licences to clients.
• Scanning and saving all premises licences and gaming permits/notifications to a case management system.
• Photocopying and scanning licensing applications, collating paperwork for submission of licensing applications, posting applications and saving all applications to case management system.
• Supporting the licensing team in terms of additional administration.
• Maintaining up to date data on spreadsheets.
• Maintaining up to date data and licences on client extranets.
• Assisting with financial matters including invoicing and making online payment for annual fees.
• Assisting with the administration on projects.

The Person:

For this role, our client is looking for someone who has gained previous legal administration experience and ideally:

• Ideally Council / local authority licencing experience
• Real estate law experience – has experience working with landlords and tenants.
• Deeds administration

The Benefits:

Contributory Pension, Group Life, Private Medical Insurance, 25 days' holiday & a flexible benefits scheme.