About Wellers Hedleys
At Wellers, we recruit only high-quality legal professionals and support staff who can deliver exceptional legal advice, and outstanding client service. We are able to offer exciting career opportunities for the right candidates in corporate markets and more local private client practices across central London, Surrey and Kent.
Here at Wellers we are growing our team. We strive to provide first-class legal services to our clients with a focus of building and maintaining lasting client relationships. The ideal candidates will have experience of working in an office environment. They will also be confident and have the ability to work effectively to tight time scales, have excellent attention to detail, be numerate and be able to deliver a high standard of client care and enjoy using their own initiative.
Commercial Property Solicitor – Great Bookham, Surrey
About the role
The role will be focused on commercial matters but some flexibility to assist residential property colleagues during busy periods and holiday cover would be preferred. The tasks you will be carrying out include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Managing the sale, purchase and lease of land or property
- Experience required for development, infrastructure and planning projects
- Managing property finance and investment
- Leasehold management
- Landlord and tenant
- The drafting, reviewing and negotiation of contracts
- Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and disposals
- Opportunity to grow and manage a commercial team
- Training junior members of staff
About you
- PQE – 4+ years
- Excellent client-facing and relationship-building skills
- The ability to communicate complex legal matters in everyday terms
- Keen business development and networking skills
- Strong drafting and negotiating skills
- Strong commercial awareness
- The ability to work as part of a team made up of legal and non-legal professionals
- IT skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and case management systems
If this role is of interest to you please apply here, or send your CV to hr@wellerslawgroup.com
Residential Property Paralegal – Great Bookham, Surrey
About the role
The role will be focused assisting our busy residential property team. The tasks you will be carrying out include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Assisting with the opening of files for purchase and lease of land or property
- Carrying out AML and preparing the file for the solicitor dealing
- Dealing with client queries and managing expectations
- Liaising with clients, solicitors and third parties by telephone, email and preparing letters
- Managing files to ensure they are kept up to date
- Answering the phone, greeting clients and coordinating and scheduling calendars and meetings
- Carrying out searches
- Managing the team diaries in relation to important dates
- Drafting Contracts
- Dealing with enquiries on sales and purchases
- Dealing with post exchange and completion matters
- Drafting completion statements
- Undertaking SDLT returns
- Assisting the property team in day to day tasks
About you
- You should have previous experience of working within a residential property team
- Excellent client-facing and relationship-building skills
- The ability to work as part of a team made up of legal and non-legal professionals
- IT skills in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and case management systems
- Good interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
- Highly organised with good attention to detail
- Numerate and IT literate (proficiency in Word and Excel)
If this role is of interest to you please apply here, or send your CV to hr@wellerslawgroup.com
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