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Receptionist
This role will suit a candidate with proven client facing experience of working in a busy office environment.
Job Type: Permanent, Part-time, 9.00-5.00pm Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
Location: Grasscroft, Saddleworth
Salary: Negotiable depending upon experience
Reports to: Directors/Head of Department
Job Purpose: To manage the firms busy post completions department
Key objectives
Award winning firm seeking receptionist support to assist in its busy Grasscroft office on a Part-time basis.
The Firm
We are a dynamic and award winning multi-office practice which provides a comprehensive range of legal services to clients across the UK. Recognising that employees are our greatest asset, we invest in training and development programs and provide a working environment, which is both supportive and challenging. Blending traditional values of personal and cost-effective advice with a modern fresh approach, we have achieved numerous accreditations and awards. We are enjoying continuous success and continuous growth and are highly regarded within the legal market. We would offer great career prospects and a competitive salary and are now seeking a receptionist.
Key Responsibilities
- To answer the telephones and correctly direct client calls.
- To greet clients attending the office.
- General office housekeeping in the reception area.
- Providing refreshments to clients and a warm welcome
- Assisting with administrative duties and audio typing
- Controlling diaries, organising meetings, lunches, booking rooms etc.
- Verifying client identification.
- Diarising OS1 dates and monitoring the renewal of OS1/OS2 searches where required
Person specification essential skills and qualifications
- Strong academic record.
- The ability to work on your own and manage a team.
- Excellent IT skills.
- Excellent organisation, presentation and communication skills.
Personal attributes
- Be reliable and diligent with good attention to detail.
- Self-motivation to work independently and as part of a team with a ‘can do’ attitude.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- A positive approach to working under pressure in a busy environment.
Staff Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Company pension
- Generous holiday allowance
- Additional days leave for your birthday each year
- Death in service policy based on 4 times salary
Please contact Rebecca O’Donnell with your CV on rebecca@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk
Job Title: Experienced Residential Conveyancing Assistant
Location: Uppermill, Saddleworth
Salary: Negotiable depending on experience
Reports to: Head of Department /Directors
Job Purpose: To assist the Conveyancing Department working both autonomously and as part of a team.
Key Objectives
CQS accredited firm is now seeking an Experienced Residential Conveyancing Assistant.
The Firm
A dynamic multi-office practice who provides a comprehensive range of legal services to clients across the UK. Recognising that employees are our greatest asset, we invest in training and development programmes and provide a working environment, which is both supportive and challenging. Blending traditional values of personal and cost-effective advice with a modern and fresh approach we have achieved numerous accreditations and awards. Offering great career prospects and competitive salary, we are now seeking a Conveyancing Assistant.
Key Responsibilities
- To assist the Conveyancing Department with varying administrative tasks
- To use initiative and prepare correspondence and legal documents under supervision
- To take client calls and calls to other professionals and provide information and updates as requested and directed
- To utilise the firms case management systems and prepare invoices and completion statements
- To be fluent in using HMLR and SDLT portals
- To have experience in using LMS and Lender Exchange
- To answer the telephones promptly, taking messages and following up where necessary in a pro-active manner.
Person Specification Essential Skills & qualifications
- A good level of education.
- Competent typing ability.
- Excellent IT Skills with working knowledge of all MS applications especially Word.
- Have excellent organisational and communication skills. Desirable Skills & qualifications
- Have an in depth understanding of the legal secretary role and administration process within the profession.
- Knowledge and experience of working in a busy Conveyancing department
Personal Attributes
- Be reliable and diligent, with good attention to detail.
- Self motivation to work independently and as part of a team with a ‘can do’ attitude.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- A positive approach to working under pressure in a busy environment.
- Have a high level of confidentiality
Staff Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Company pension
- Generous holiday allowance
- Additional days leave for your birthday each year
- Death in service policy based on 4 times salary
Please contact Rebecca O’Donnell with your CV at Rebecca@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk
This role will suit a qualified Solicitor with around five years PQE and a proven track record of handling a commercial property case load with a focus on commercial property Buying and Selling Commercial Property/Commercial Lease work acting for private individuals, companies, partnerships and pension funds. Working on cases relating bare land, hotels, high street buildings, shopping complexes, restaurants, agricultural and any other property or premise used for commercial purposes. Also assisting in due diligence in corporate transactional work.
You must also be willing to network, and prepared to nurture and build local connections.
Job Type: Permanent, Full time
Location: Grasscroft, Saddleworth
Salary: Negotiable depending upon experience
Reports to: Director/James O’Donnell
Job Purpose: To assist the department with fee earning working autonomously and as part of a team to manage current caseloads and to build and manage own case load and to assist the commercial team on larger transactional matters involving commercial property work.
Key objectives
Award winning firm seeking a Commercial Property Solicitor on a full-time basis.
The Firm
We are a dynamic and award winning multi-office practice which provides a comprehensive range of legal services to clients across the UK. Recognising that employees are our greatest asset, we invest in training and development programs and provide a working environment, which is both supportive and challenging. Blending traditional values of personal and cost-effective advice with a modern fresh approach, we have achieved numerous accreditations and awards. We are enjoying continuous success and continuous growth and are highly regarded within the legal market. We would offer great career prospects and a competitive salary and are now seeking an Assistant in the Commercial Department due to a substantial increase in instructions.
Key Responsibilities
- To assist and build own case load in a thriving commercial property department taking instructions on new enquiries and providing advice and handling cases autonomously and as part of a team on the larger transactional cases.
- To build relationships with clients and internal and external contacts on behalf of the Team.
- To use initiative to prepare contracts, correspondence and legal documents using Case Management including use of Practical Law.
- Work autonomously in the following transactional matters: -
4.1 Commercial Property Sales and Purchases
4.2 Pension Fund Acquisitions/Disposals
4.3 Commercial Landlord and Tenant (Lease, Lease renewals, Assignments and Underletting’s including advising on LTA 1954 and ancillary matters surrounding Lease Grant and Renewals.
4.4 Must be proficient with key stages of transactional workflow handling a transaction start to end.
4.5 Overage and Commercial Sales of Land (Whole and Part) for development.
Person specification essential skills and qualifications
- Strong academic record.
- The ability to work on your own and as part of a team.
- Excellent IT skills.
- Excellent organisation, presentation and communication skills.
- To have good connections and a desire to network.
Personal attributes
- Be reliable and diligent with good attention to detail.
- Self-motivation to work independently and as part of a team with a ‘can do’ attitude.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- A positive approach to working under pressure in a busy environment.
Staff Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Company pension
- Generous holiday allowance
- Additional days leave for your birthday each year
- Death in service policy based on 4 times salary
Please contact James O’Donnell with your CV on james@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk
We are currently looking for an ambitious and driven Employment Litigation Solicitor to join our award-winning team to head, nurture and grow the Employment Department in a role focussing on HR and Employment Law advice and Dispute Resolution.
This role will focus on dealing with both employers and employees in potential claims both at ACAS stage and through to disposal in the Employment Tribunal acting for both Applicant and Respondent. The candidate will have experience of negotiation through commercial settlement, dealing with Settlement of Claims both through ACAS and Settlement Agreements, able to quantify a potential claim, issuing and defending proceedings in the Employment Tribunal, instructing counsel where necessary, dealing with interim hearings and seeing matters through to full disposal at trial. The candidate will also have experience of drafting contracts of employment, Service Agreements and HR documents and advising employees and employers at early disciplinary stages as to due process. The role will involve handling matters autonomously and assisting the Commercial Litigation and Corporate teams both in relation to Employment Aspects including Due Diligence on Merger and Acquisition and TUPE.
This is a unique opportunity to join our award-winning firm in a senior role with an opportunity to develop the department and with a clear pathway and career progression.
You will be an ambitious individual with good academics. You will be an excellent communicator who is able to interact and build business relationships at all levels. You will have a keen sense of commercial awareness, excellent communication skills, good command over legal and technical principles and the ability to present facts, law and strategies in a reasoned and persuasive manner both to opposition and to clients.
Staff Benefits:
• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Generous holiday allowance
• Additional days leave for your birthday each year
• Death in service policy based on 4 times salary
Please contact James O’Donnell/Richard Dobson Mason and Rebecca O’Donnell to discuss the role in more detail or apply for the vacancy with immediate consideration by submitting your CV to james@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk; rebecca@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk; richard@odonnellsolicitors.co.uk
Please see our website www.odonnellsolicitors.co.uk for more information about our Employment Litigation services.
