Post: Residential Conveyancing Fee Earner
Term: Full time, permanent
Reporting to: Team Manager
Salary: Dependent on experience
Location: Stockport
Purpose of the Role
The Conveyancing Fee Earner will be responsible for a healthy caseload consisting of a varied spectrum of Residential Property Conveyancing matters. You will be expected to look after clients with a high attention to detail and excellent customer service and communication skills.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conducting matters on behalf of clients accurately and reliably is key in upholding the firm’s quality and risk management procedures, including Lexcel and SRA Code of Conduct.
- To generate fee income and ensure proper control of time recording, work in progress, billing and cash collection in line with agreed targets unless exceptional circumstances apply.
- Take an active part in business development opportunities on behalf of the team and firm.
- Supervision and support of fee earning work undertaken by colleagues to cover absence and holidays for example.
- Supervision of other fee earning colleagues if required.
- Participation in marketing activities whether on a firm wide, group or office basis.
- Attend clients both in person and on the telephone and to provide such support in a
- professional and friendly manner in keeping with the firm’s standards for client care.
- Manage the preparation of correspondence and documents through the case management system.
- Manage filing in both the paper and Seneca file which may include filing and the opening, closing, storage and retrieval of client files in accordance with the procedures contained in the office manual.
- Attendance and participation at group meetings.
- Be effective in developing new work from existing clients and seek new clients for themselves and others.
- Maintain and nurture an appropriate network of contacts and referrers and endeavour to promote the firm in your professional and personal life.
- Gain and maintain good IT and telephone skills appropriate to modern legal practice; such as the ability to use the case management system and other standard applications, record time, use email, conduct research on the internet and use office facilities and the phone system.
Skills & Attitude
- In tune with the firm’s mission statement and core values and committed to demonstrating and developing these.
- A team player within the group and firm as a whole.
- Efficient, well organised, and timely.
- Effective communicator by telephone, face to face and in writing.
Experience & Education
- Experienced Conveyancer/Paralegal with a minimum of 3-4 years’ experience of fee earning work
- Experience and relevant qualifications for the group
Support
- Report to and be supported by the Team Head.