Residential Conveyancer (Solicitor/CILEx) - Thornbury

Our client are recruiting a full-time Conveyancing Solicitor or CILEx to join their Residential Conveyancing team in Thornbury.

You will be dealing with a range of residential property transactions, including:

• Sales and purchases
• Transfers
• Remortgages

We focus on high-quality service over quantity of transactions and do not have a ‘high volume’ business model.

Our team has established connections with local estate agents, and we are therefore looking for someone who is engaged and confident with networking and other marketing/business development activities.

The wider Residential Conveyancing team is among the biggest in Bristol, spanning four of our five offices. Our department is highly regarded, and we frequently receive excellent reviews on Google and Review Solicitors.

We may be able to offer this role at our Gloucester Road or Bedminster offices if preferred.

The role

Fee-earning work

• Interviewing clients, taking instructions and keeping detailed file notes.
• Maintaining file checklists.
• Reviewing compliance documentation and analysing the source of funds evidence for AML.
• Assessing the quality of work undertaken.
• Issuing client care letters.
• Drafting or considering contract packages.
• Raising enquiries.
• Submitting appropriate searches.
• Drafting title, mortgage and search reports.
• Acting for mortgage lenders.
• Conducting exchanges of contracts.
• Agreeing on the form of transfer deeds and raising requisitions.
• Completing matters on schedule.
• Advising clients as to the progress of matters and costs.
• Maintaining adequate and up-to-date knowledge of the law and practice.
• Checking all draft documents.
• Giving undertakings in the approved form in conveyancing matters.
• Participation in marketing activities, whether on a firm-wide, departmental or office basis.

Accounts procedures

• Preparation of bills of costs, completion statements, exchanging contracts and obtaining the approval of Accounts for bills.
• Obtaining payment on account from clients.
• Requesting cheques and obtaining authorised signatures.
• Notifying Accounts of incoming telegraphic transfers.
• Preparing written requests for telegraphic transfer for authorisation.
• Counting money received from clients as payments in.
• Requesting the transfer of money between client accounts and the office account.
• Referring amendments to cheques and bills to Partners for approval and dealing with the related formalities.