Post-Development Paralegal in Birmingham

This is an exciting time to join our market leading Residential Development Unit as the team continues to win repeat and new work from its impressive client base of recognised national and regional housebuilders. As a paralegal in our fantastic Birmingham based team you will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and taking responsibility for your own matters with the assistance of a case management system.

The role is within our dedicated Post Development support team and involves a varied workload of matters, including resale enquiries, Land Registry requisitions, deeds of variation, affordable housing sales, lease extensions and managed land transfers. This is very much a client facing role where you can expect full encouragement and support in developing and maintaining those relationships.

Our Housebuilding Team specialises in residential development - and nothing else. With over 230 specialists, we have the largest residential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition to disposal service. The team acts for national and regional housebuilders, promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to 6,500 new homes. Each of our plot sales hubs in the South, the Midlands and the North on average handle approximately 4,000 plots sales per annum. Each Plot Sales Hub comprises four teams who work together to support plot sale transactions: site set up; plot sales; part exchange; and infrastructure. Within our hubs, our plot sales team has 135 experts who work exclusively for housebuilder clients on conveyancing work. Each conveyancer is focused on delivering a high level of service that places clients front and centre. We invest in our people, recruiting and retaining the best in the market. We work hard in creating an enjoyable workplace culture that encourages the sharing of knowledge and experience; requires regular training on the law and developments in the sector.

Personality fit is absolutely key in this role and our successful candidate will be a personable, enthusiastic and confident individual with excellent client management skills. They will have completed their undergraduate degree and ideally their LPC (but this is not essential). They will also demonstrate the following attributes:

• Great communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Commitment to forging strong working relationships with our clients.
• Ability and willingness to learn.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify those areas where they need to seek help or advice from colleagues.
• An organised, methodical and proactive approach in managing time, work priorities and deadlines.
• A strong team working ethic.
• Good IT skills, ideally including previous experience of working with a case management system.
• Discretion and professionalism at all times.
• Calm under pressure and able to operate efficiently in a fast-paced and demanding working environment.
• Ability to proactively chase matters when required and regularly report (externally to the clients and internally for management purposes) to ensure that the client is always updated.
• Demonstrate quick response times.

With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around, our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus. In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.

We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. Gateley is a legal and professional services group, we are a group of formidable experts in all areas of law and business. Passionate problem solvers, we get our kicks from finding the right answers and getting our legal and business clients where they need to be. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. Being part of Gateley is not just about the expertise that you bring; it's about attitude too.

Diversity, inclusion and well being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, sexual orientation, disability, or culture. We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies.

If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.