Rustington Recruitment

Our Chichester based client has a current requirement for an experienced legal secretary to join their busy private client department.

They are looking for someone confident and proactive to work within the department.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience and knowledge of Trusts as well as:

• General administration duties
• Audio typing
• Answering the telephone
• Liaising with clients

They are offering a competitive salary to the successful candidate, commensurate with experience and ability.

This is a full time role working 9 am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday.

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Our Chichester based client has a new requirement for a secretary to join their busy residential conveyancing department.

The ideal candidate will have proven experience and knowledge of the conveyancing processes from initial instruction to post completion as well as :

• Dealing with Case Management Systems
• General administration duties
• Audio Typing
• Answering the telephone
• Liaising with Clients, Solicitors and Estate Agents

They are offering a competitive salary to the successful candidate, commensurate with experience and ability.

This is a full time role working 9 am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday.

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Our client has a present requirement for a Conveyancer to undertake Fee Earning work at their busy Worthing office.

3-5 years PQE essential.

• Sales & Purchases (Commercial & Residential)
• Re-mortgage
• Buy-to-Let
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Freehold
• Transfer of ownership
• Landlord & Tenant
• Commercial leasing
• Rental agreements
• Lease renewals

You must have excellent IT skills and be able to prioritise your workload efficiently in order to meet tight deadlines.

You will have excellent communication and client care skills.

You should be able to work well as part of a team.

You must have strong attention to detail.

You should have a positive and friendly manner.

You will have daily contact with clients and third parties. You will also have contact with Clients whom the Firm have working relationships, and you will be expected to act in a way which upholds these relationships and which conforms to any service level agreement they may have with a particular client.

Ability to spot potential opportunities with clients in all other aspects of the Firm’s services.

Knowledge/experience of All aspects of Residential/Commercial Property Transactions.

Strong sense of commercial awareness and ability to build good effective working relationships with local agents.

Experience of Case Management Systems.

Experience of managing a high-volume caseload of varied Property Transactions without supervision.

Friendly and proactive with a positive, hardworking attitude.

The desire to contribute towards the future development of the team and company.

Salary negotiable.

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Our client, a busy Worthing based firm of solicitors, have a new requirement for an experienced all rounder Legal Secretary to join their team on a permanent basis.

You will be primarily dealing with Private Client work but will be touching on Residential and Commercial Conveyancing and Family Law as well as Wills and Probate.

First class typing and communications skills essential.

Monday to Friday, full time.

Salary according to ability and experience, IRO 20-24k per annum.

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Our client has a present requirement for a fee earner to conduct litigation cases for their Family Law department at their Chichester office.

1-3 years’ PQE essential.

• Divorce and Separation, Dissolution of Civil Partnerships

· Family matters generally

· Financial disputes upon divorce

· Residence and contact disputes for children

· Fixed Fee Divorces

· Civil Partnership matters

· Prenuptial and Cohabitation Agreements

· Issues arising from the breakdown of a relationship

· Disputes between unmarried couples

· Emergency remedies including Occupation and Non-Molestation Orders, Injunctions

· Resolving issues regarding finances including properties, income, pensions both for married couples and cohabitees

· Dealing with issues that arise in relation to children including financial support for them

· Disputes between unmarried couples including property disputes and cohabitation agreements

· International children disputes

· Collaborative resolutions

· Interviews are available for preliminary advice and an assessment of the merits of a case

· General Family matters

· Advice on alternative methods to reduce disputes such as mediation and collaborative law

Full time ideally but the client will consider 4 days per week.

Salary negotiable.

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Our client, an established and renowned law firm, are seeking an ambitious and motivated Senior Executive to join the Private Client team, specifically to work on Tax, Trusts and Estates matters in their Chichester office.

Responsibilities:

• Trust and Estate tax returns and personal tax returns, including related tax calculations using the firm’s software (IRIS). All related correspondence with clients, HM Revenue & Customs and third parties as required. Monitoring and working to related deadlines.
• Preparing Trust accounts.
• Monitoring deadlines on Trusts and Estates such as ten yearly charges and beneficial entitlements.
• Dealing with the day-to-day administration on clients.
• Inheritance Tax returns for Trusts and Estates.
• Ad hoc advisory work, such as advising on Trust distributions.
• Assisting in the training and mentoring of junior members of staff.
• To carry out other tasks as and when required by the LLP.

Required:

• A suitable professional qualification – e.g. STEP, ATT, CTA (part qualified)
• Significant experience (2 years+) of working in a private client or trust department in a client facing role
• Ability to work accurately, prioritise work and adhere to critical deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels
• Proactive and ambitious, with a willingness to challenge in the best interest of the client
• IT literate, with experience of using case management and tax software (ideally IRIS)

The role is full time 9am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday.

The firm is offering a competitive salary to the successful candidate, commensurate with experience and ability.

Rustington Recruitment is an employment agency.

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