Paralegal - Property Disputes

Eauzone Spa; Exeter; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Pension with Aviva

Private medical insurance

Gym discounts

Health assessments

Job summary

Trowers & Hamlins in Exeter seeks a Paralegal specializing in Property Disputes to support its real estate dispute resolution team.

You will advise on a broad range of disputes, draft court documents, and help prepare cases for hearings while building client relationships and contributing to marketing efforts.

Qualifications

• Strong technical skills.
• Client-focused with professional demeanour.
• Able to work to deadlines and under pressure.
• Excellent academic record.
• Interest in marketing and business development.
• Autonomous with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Advising a mixed client base on a broad range of real estate disputes.
• Negotiate settlements with opposing parties and advise on terms.
• Drafting court proceedings, witness statements and affidavits; assist with trial bundles.
• Assist preparation of cases for hearing at the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber).
• Build and maintain effective client relationships.
• Participate in marketing initiatives and training sessions.
• Ensure files are managed in Lexcel compliance.

Skills

Real estate law

Client focus

Self-starter

Team player

Commercial awareness

Deadline management

Interpersonal skills

Academic excellence

Marketing interest

Job description

Paralegal - Property Disputes

Department: Dispute Resolution and Litigation

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Exeter

Description

We provide a fully integrated real estate dispute resolution law service for clients which works closely alongside our national projects, real estate, construction and litigation teams.

Our practice has extensive experience of acting for public and private sector commercial clients on a wide range of real estate disputes in principal areas such as development, institutional investment, commercial landlord and tenant and leasehold management. We have experience in all forms of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration.

We have established a solid real estate litigation practice, which delivers high quality, practical and commercial real estate dispute resolution services. In order to ensure we are fully able to resource the growing number of work opportunities we are seeking to appoint a Paralegal to be based in Exeter.

The Role

• Advising a mixed client base from both the public and private sector on a broad range of real estate disputes;
• Negotiate settlements with opposing parties and advising clients on any proposed terms;
• Drafting court proceedings, witness statements and affidavits and assisting with the preparation of trial bundles;
• Assisting with the preparation of cases for hearing at the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber);
• Building and maintaining effective client relationships;
• Active participation in marketing initiatives;
• Participating in firm-wide, office and departmental training sessions;
• Ensuring files are managed in compliance with Lexcel procedures.

The Candidate

The firm has a competency framework for paralegals and in particular for this role we require:

• Strong technical skills;
• Client focus;
• Drive and enthusiasm.
• Team based approach;
• Commercial awareness;
• Ability to work to deadlines;
• Good interpersonal skills, presenting and client facing skills.
• Excellent academic record;
• An interest in marketing;
• An ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision – a self-starter.

Benefits

Our benefits include, an annual bonus scheme, GPP Pension Scheme with Aviva. We also offer Private Medical Insurance, (currently with Vitality Health) upon joining the firm, which include discounted gym memberships, free cinema tickets, health assessments and much more.

Trowers & Hamlins is an equal opportunities employer and values equity, diversity and inclusion. All applications will be considered on merit and the applicant's suitability to meet the requirements of the role and will be treated equally irrespective of Ethnicity, Gender (including Trans and non-binary) Race, Disability, Religion and sexual orientation.

As part of our firm recruitment policy our candidates are subject to employment screening background checks. These checks include personal details, education and employment history, professional qualifications and credit and criminal checks as appropriate.