Conveyancing Executive/Chartered Legal Executive

Top-quality advice combined with a commercial approach. Quite simply, they 'get it'." Chambers UK

The Role

We have a new opportunity for an experienced Residential Conveyancer / Conveyancing Executive / Chartered Legal Executive to join our Real Estate team in Bristol or Reading on a permanent basis.

This is a diverse and varied role, working across all areas of Plots conveyancing for some of the UK's leading housebuilders. This is an exciting and challenging position for an experienced conveyancer who enjoys working in a supportive environment, for ambitious clients with high expectations. You will work closely with our clients acting for them on the sale of their new build plots, some of which will be using purchasing schemes, and carrying out a full range of conveyancing requirements.

The Practice Group

Our Real Estate department provides legal services to clients on a range of matters, from large land acquisition deals right through to plot sales. We advise on residential development work, strategic land joint ventures and consortia arrangements. Our strong reputation in the residential sector is based on many years' experience advising residential developers and house-builders. Our understanding of the market brings a depth of expertise, which makes us one of the leading law firms in this field.

Our clients are some of the UK's leading house-builders including Barratt Homes, Bloor Homes, Vistry Partnership and Cotswold Homes.

"I've have had the pleasure of working at OC over the last 9 years. During this time the plots team has supported my personal career progression from being a reservation assistant to becoming a conveyancing executive. The firm is dedicated to development,; listening to each employee to see what their personal path is, be that progressing, or growth within their current role. There is always support on hand and I feel very fortunate to be a part of such a lovely team. My role has allowed me to build an excellent relationship with multiple clients, whilst providing me with an interesting and varied workload." Emma Kington, Conveyancing Executive, Osborne Clarke

The Team

You will be a part of the Plots team, which sits within Real Estate and works closely with other areas of the business. Alongside plot conveyancing, the team works on site set up matters, section agreements, compliance certificates and deeds of variation. The team is based both in Bristol and Reading and consists of 16 conveyancers with various levels of experience, and 9 administrative assistants.
We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

Technical Skills and Experience

The successful candidate will have experience as a Plots Sales or Residential Property Conveyancer. Experience undertaking title investigation of purchased properties is desirable but not essential.

You will also have:

• Managed your own caseload with minimal supervision.
• Experience working under pressure and to tight deadlines, while maintaining great attention to detail.
• The ability to work with high volumes at times, without compromising on service.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong client relationships.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Good IT skills with the ability to produce own work and use case management systems.
• High levels of commercial awareness; keeping up to date and applying changes and developments in this area of law.

Our recruitment process

We welcome direct applications for our opportunities - if you would like any further information about this role or the firm, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact, in complete confidence, Patrick Fermin Ryan on patrick.ferminryan@osborneclarke.com

Please note we review and progress applications on a rolling basis. At Osborne Clarke we do not make any recruitment decisions using automated decision-making.

We are committed to providing an environment where you can perform to the best of your abilities at every stage of your recruitment experience and beyond. If you require any adjustments to be made during the application stage, interview process, or when working with us, please let us know in confidence.

About Us

Osborne Clarke is an international legal practice with over 330 Partners and more than 1,260 talented lawyers in 26 locations*. Our sector-based approach enables us to help our clients tackle the issues they are facing today, and prepare for the ones that they will face tomorrow. Advising them both comprehensively and commercially. We love working closely with our clients on new deals, products and solutions which will transform their businesses, markets and even sectors. And our unique approachable culture is not an added extra, it's fundamental to our success.

At Osborne Clarke we value difference and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We want everyone to feel that OC is a place where you can be yourself and belong, and our range of interest groups and diversity networks - not to mention our great teams - are a part of making that a reality. We value the health and wellbeing of our people and our wide range of initiatives and benefits support this.

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