Paralegal - Real Estate Litigation

FQPS Academy Ltd.; Leeds; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

DAC Beachcroft in Leeds is recruiting a Paralegal to join the Portfolio Management team supporting the Real Estate group. You will handle a varied mix of litigation and transactional work from day one, managing own files and interacting with clients in a busy national practice.

The role values excellent academics, attention to detail, and the ability to build strong client relationships, with opportunities for professional development and progression within the firm’s established paralegal

Qualifications

• Excellent academics including a 2.1 degree or better.
• At least 6 months in a similar Litigation or Real Estate focussed Paralegal role.
• A genuine interest in the law and property.
• Excellent attention to detail, and strong communication skills (written and verbal).
• Confident with an ability to build strong relationships with clients (internal and external) and third party contacts at all levels.
• Flexible, organised, and self-motivated team player who is able to work within the team to achieve common goals.
• Must be able to work under pressure to meet required deadlines.
• Experience in Telecomms Real Estate would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Helping with work across pre-litigation work.
• Supporting with tribunals in County and High Court proceedings.
• Commercial debt recovery and distressed tenants.
• Preparing and issuing tort notices.
• The preparation of title and lease reports, break notices, lease and other L&T documentation drafting and negotiation.
• General assistance to fee earners on a variety of client matters and general support.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Relationship building

Team player

Under pressure

Education

2.1 degree or better

Job description

This role is to work as part of the Portfolio Management team in our Leeds office, which is a well-established national team of junior fee-earners who support our national Real Estate group.

Our Real Estate group covers every aspect of commercial real estate work including, development, investment, asset management, funding, construction, landlord and tenant, planning and environmental and dispute resolution. Clients include property management and development companies, health trusts and government bodies (local and central), owner occupiers and institutions, both in the UK and overseas.

The team also has a proven recorded in paralegal progression. We very much value our Paralegals, and see them as an “incubation hub” for future talent and have in the last 12 months alone, seen 4 former paralegals formally qualify as solicitors with the assistance of professional development funding and mentoring from within the team and wider group.

Key Responsibilities

The Paralegal opportunity is an extremely varied role which see you work across litigation and transactional work. Joining a very busy team, from day one you will have the opportunity to own your own files and interact with clients.

Our Litigation team is a market leader, particularly in the Telecomms space, being the only team working with all four mobile providers. You will also have exposure to clients in other sectors such as retail etc. This will give you the opportunity to work on extremely complex, interesting cases across the full lifecycle of litigation.

As a Paralegal, your work will include a huge variety of tasks including:

• Helping with work across pre-litigation work.
• Supporting with tribunals in County and High Court proceedings.
• Commercial debt recovery and distressed tenants.
• Preparing and issuing tort notices.
• The preparation of title and lease reports, break notices, lease and other L&T documentation drafting and negotiation.
• General assistance to fee earners on a variety of client matters and general support.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Excellent academics including a 2.1 degree or better.
• At least 6 months in a similar Litigation or Real Estate focussed Paralegal role
• A genuine interest in the law and property.
• Excellent attention to detail, and strong communication skills (written and verbal) with an ability to produce work to a high standard.
• Confident with an ability to build strong relationships with clients (internal and external) and third party contacts at all levels.
• Must be flexible, organised, and self-motivated team player who is able to work within the team to achieve common goals.
• Must be able to work under pressure to meet required deadlines.
• Experience in Telecomms Real Estate would be advantageous

About DAC Beachcroft

We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Dubai (DIFC), Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.

At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies

DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).

Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact: [e-mail] or [e-mail]

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