Legal Secretary (Leasehold Enfranchisement & Residential

Winckworth Sherwood LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm is looking for an experienced Legal Secretary to join their Leasehold Enfranchisement & Residential department in London. This full-time role entails supporting a team of legal professionals while managing administrative tasks such as responding to Land Registry requisitions and handling document management. Candidates should have a background in residential conveyancing and be highly organized with excellent attention to detail. Familiarity with legal document systems like NetDocs is essential.

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a Legal Secretary in a residential conveyancing team is essential.
• Experience in enfranchisement teams is helpful but not required.
• Must demonstrate skills in juggling multiple tasks and managing deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Providing administrative support to the LER team.
• Responding to Land Registry requisitions.
• Handling SDLT forms and sending documents via DocuSign.
• Creating and updating online data rooms.

Skills

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Ability to manage multiple tasks

Experience with legal document management systems

Knowledge of legal billing processes

Tools

NetDocs

3E

Job description

Legal Secretary (Leasehold Enfranchisement & Residential)

Leasehold Enfranchisement, London

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are hiring for an experienced residential conveyancing focused Legal Secretary, to work with our London based Leasehold Enfranchisement & Residential (LER) department and support the team as they continue to grow.

This is a full time (35hr a week), position.

The team focuses on every sector of the residential property market. They specialise in freehold enfranchisement, lease extensions both acting for landlord and for flat owners, conveyancing for individuals, rights of first refusal, right to manage claims and other leasehold issues.

The role will see you working as part of a team providing administrative support for the team of one Partner, Legal Director, Senior Associate, Associate, Solicitor and two Paralegals. You will also be working alongside another Legal Secretary.

Some of your day‑to‑day tasks will include:

• Responding to Land Registry requisitions.
• SDLT forms in line with the firm’s policy
• Sending out documents to sign via DocuSign.
• Creating and updating online data rooms.
• Creating and ordering property searches.
• Land Registry (ordering documents, investigations etc).
• Inputting contacts onto our CRM system.

Note to agencies: We are not accepting agency CVs for this role.

ABOUT YOU

As a Legal Secretary/Legal PA, you will be able to demonstrate past experience within a residential conveyancing team. Experience within an enfranchisement team would also be helpful, but not essential.

You will thrive on being highly organised with excellent attention to detail and love juggling multiple tasks, using your prioritisation skills to manage deadlines, clients and your colleagues. Experience with a legal document management system (we use NetDocs), the legal billing process (we use 3E), and document formatting are essential for this role.

In return you will be joining a highly respected team who deal with high‑value, complex residential property transactions for a wide range of clients.

WHY US

Winckworth Sherwood is an exciting, diverse, and growing business. We are a full‑service law firm with a diverse client base, that prides itself on providing advice across a broad range of sectors and markets. Delivering a first‑class service is key to everything we do.

Our clients range from some of the UK’s largest businesses and institutions, housebuilders and developers through to investors, professional partnerships, family offices, not for profit organisations and private individuals – all of which benefit from the flexible, practical approach of our lawyers.

We recognise that our people play a key part in our success and as a result we are committed to their development and well‑being. We promote a healthy work‑life balance and flexibility, keeping our people motivated and stimulated to deliver great things.

YOUR APPLICATION JOURNEY

Application review

Your profile will be screened by a member of the WS recruitment team. If your CV is shortlisted, you will be invited to have a short call with our Recruitment Manager, Ash Evans, to discuss your interest in the vacancy. No AI is used in our application screening process! Every candidate who applies to this role will be told if they have been successful or not in moving to the next stage.

1st interview (In person at our London office)

This will be with the Senior Associate who focuses on residential conveyancing, and Ash Evans, who will discuss your interest in the role, what you are looking for professionally, and ask some competency/behavioural questions that relate to the key skills/behaviours needed for this position. Additionally, you will sit a 60min Excel/Word technical test.

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't progressed to the next interview stage, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

2nd interview (In person at our London office)

At this stage, you will get to meet the head of the team and at least one of the Legal Secretaries, who can provide you with their insight into what it is like working as a Legal Secretary in the LER team.

This is also a good opportunity to ask any final role/firm specific questions.

Every candidate who reaches this stage will be offered the chance to have a feedback call with our Recruitment Manager to understand why they weren't offered the position, so that you can use this feedback to help with other job applications.

Offer of employment

If you are successful and accept our offer of employment, we will submit your details to our background screening company (Giant), who will conduct a series of background checks. Once these have been completed and we have separately validated your proof of right to work in the UK, a start date can be agreed, and your onboarding schedule can be planned.