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The firm’s friendly and down to earth culture are the key to Harold Benjamin’s high staff retention rate.

We are committed to offering our employees, where possible, a flexible and progressive working environment. We have had a number of joiners from larger city firms in the past 5 years who have made the change to work for us, craving a city firm feel with a work life balance approach.

At Harold Benjamin we are extremely proud to boast a truly diverse professional and support team who hail from a broad range of backgrounds, communities and circumstances. We feel that this truly adds value to the employee experience and internal culture at Harold Benjamin as well as being positive and beneficial for our clients.

We welcome people from all different cultures and backgrounds to join our team. We provide a level playing field for all incumbent and prospective staff. We invest in people on merit, with place of education and individual characteristics being no influence or barrier to reaching your potential. We adopt a zero tolerance approach to breaches in our Diversity and Inclusion Policy and all staff at Harold Benjamin are requested to update their awareness and continued understanding of this policy on a regular basis.

We offer all per employees the following

 

  • Employee Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Annual holiday entitlement with additional service accrued days
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Voluntary pension scheme

Current Vacancies

Experienced Commercial Property Legal Secretary

This role offers an opportunity to work in a dynamic legal environment, contributing to significant commercial real estate transactions and gaining valuable experience in the field. Supporting fee earners in managing real estate transactions, from drafting and reviewing contracts to conducting title searches and assisting with due diligence, this is the ideal role for someone who has a solid understanding of commercial real estate practice. The role involves working within a team of 5 commercial property solicitors who you will support along with another legal secretary. You will be required to work flexibly and to manage your own time and workload. Our fee earners tend to communicate through self-generated email. The firm uses an external third party for document production; they also assist with a variety of file management tasks.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Minimum 10 years relevant prior experience.
  • Ideally a commercial real estate, asset management, landlord and tenant background – but not essential.

Salary:
Competitive

Location:

London EC1N. May be required to attend our Harrow office as and when necessary.

Hrs:
Full time (Hybrid working is available)

Basic experience/skills required:

  • Excellent working knowledge of Office 365, Excel and InfoTrack
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Confident telephone manner.
  • Excellent administration skills..
  • Ability to anticipate problems and find solutions.
  • Ability to prioritise work.
  • Ability to work in a team.

Desirable experience:

  • Experience of using of P4W Case Management System and/or NetDocs or similar.
  • Proficient in preparing and submitting applications to the Land Registry through the Land Registry portal.
  • Skilled in preparing and electronically submitting SDLT forms to HMRC.
  • Experienced in navigating the Companies House website..
  • Competent in using DocuSign or similar electronic signature platforms.
  • Experience in preparing bills and an understanding of solicitors’ office and client accounts for the purpose of billing.

Tasks will include some or all of the following:

  • File management (including filing, file opening and archiving) using P4W/NetDocs or similar).
  • Instigating AML searches (in conjunction with the firm’s on-boarding team).
  • Scanning and photocopying.
  • Compiling/binding/bundling/indexing/scheduling deeds and documents.
  • Dealing with work created by outsourced typing and document producer.
  • Dealing with our own solicitor and third-party emails.
  • Taking and making telephone calls to clients and other third parties.
  • Diary and meeting co-ordination.
  • Any other administrative task which may be required from time to time.
May be required to carry out duties normally undertaken by other staff members, and cover for holiday/sickness absences. Ultimately reporting to the Head of Department (unless otherwise indicated) but required to carry out work for any/all members of the team. The number of team members you assist may fluctuate over time. Depending on the needs of the business and your skill set, may be required to work for more than one team/department at a time. Must have the ability and flexibility to work as a member of a team, to work constructively with our technology and show a friendly and helpful attitude.
Please respond with your current cv to:

londonrecruitment@haroldbenjamin.com

Senior Career Paralegal – Banking and Real Estate Finance

Experience: Minimum 3 years, preferably in a real estate finance or commercial real estate practice at a comparable firm. An understanding of banking finance documents.

Key Skills:

Expertise in commercial mortgage documentation (e.g., promissory notes, mortgages, assignments of leases, guarantees), title review and due diligence, closing coordination (including post-closing matter), familiarity with and real estate-secured loan transactions. Intercreditor deeds, Deeds of Priority, Loan Market Association form documentation. Taking ownership of files, self-initiative and efficiency whilst maintaining accuracy is key.

Career Orientation:

Explicit preference for candidates seeking a long-term role (not using the position as a stepping stone).

Reporting:

Direct support to Supervising Partner with flexibility to assist other members of the firm as capacity allows.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Assist with drawing up Completion Statements – Land Registry fees, Companies House fees, Lawyer Checker, CHAPS and BACs, Winding up searches, Indemnities etc.
  • Preparing a basic first draft of Lender’s standard form transaction documents in redline
  • Setting up datarooms and uploading documents to the dataroom
  • Returning long standing monies in the firm’s client account to clients
  • Attend to completing Risk Assessment forms
  • Ensuring AML/KYC has been completed on each file
  • Preparing firm’s standard form client care letters and scope of work
  • Getting familiar with why solicitor firm’s carry out source of funds and source of wealth checks (under the supervision of the Supervising Partner with the assistance of the firm’s compliance team)
  • To draw up TT forms and carry out lawyer checker, what documents to enclose with a TT form such as the other side’s solicitor’s client A/C details, Completion statement, lawyer checker search result
  • Ledger reading – monies in, monies out, monies on account
  • Infotrack training to carry out pre-completion searches – OS1, K17, winding up searches
  • Filing SDLT returns
  • Carrying out property searches on Infotrack
  • Promptly carry out Companies House and Land Registry registrations
  • Setting up DocuSign and then dating the documents on completion of a transaction
  • Prepare fee invoices
  • Prepare disbursement only invoices
  • Preparing e-bibles and hard copy bibles for clients
  • Archiving files
  • To efficiently use the firm’s case management systems

Please respond with your current cv to:

londonrecruitment@haroldbenjamin.com