Legal Assistant/Executive

McEwan Fraser Legal; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic and award-winning Solicitor and Estate Agency in Edinburgh seeks motivated Legal Assistants to join their in-house legal team. You’ll play a critical role in providing legal administration and customer service, supporting the conveyancing process and ensuring efficient operations in a busy legal environment. Experience in administration is valued, with training available for candidates without a legal background.

Qualifications

• Experience in legal administration is desirable.
• Genuine interest in conveyancing work.
• Strong communication skills for client interaction.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an updated filing system and create client files.
• Respond to telephone and email enquiries, liaising with clients.
• Produce formal documents including contracts and correspondence.

Skills

General administration

Customer service

Communication

Job description

McEwan Fraser Legal, an award-winning Solicitor and Estate Agency, is a dynamic, modern company. With an array of respected industry awards under our belt, we are highly innovative and known for our emphasis on providing exceptional customer service. We deal with residential and commercial property sales as well as having a robust legal department specialising in conveyancing, private client, family law and litigation.

Due to the demands of the business, we require professional, motivated Legal Assistants to join the Legal team in our Edinburgh Head Office. We are not your typical Solicitors & Estate Agents as we do everything in-house to ensure we have specialists to advise clients during every step of their journey. You will be joining a varied team of over 150 in-house experts who all share the same passion for client care.

Experienced administrators with a genuine interest in taking on the challenge of helping the department run as efficiently as possible will be considered although previous experience and knowledge of conveyancing work within the Scottish Legal system is desirable.

Main responsibilities will include:

1. General and Legal administration
   • Maintaining an updated filing system
   • Creating and updating client files on case management systems
   • File preparation and allocation of files to fee earners
   • Money laundering and ID verification checks
2. Customer Service
   • Responding to telephone and email enquiries
   • Liaising with clients and other solicitors with occasional face-to-face meetings
3. Legal correspondence
   • Producing formal documents including contracts, letters, faxes, email messages and all other relevant correspondence (i.e. LBTT forms, registration of deeds, redemptions statements, etc.)
   • Training will be provided to those candidates who do not have a legal background