Legal Assistant(Leases)

Summary: A housing association is seeking a temporary Legal Assistant for approximately 10 weeks to manage lease agreements and related documents. The role involves reviewing leases, identifying discrepancies, and ensuring compliance with legal standards. The position requires strong organizational skills and proficiency in legal databases. The working arrangement is hybrid, with three days from home.

Key Responsibilities:

• Obtain lease agreements and related documents from the Land Registry, ensuring completeness and accuracy against internal records.
• Conduct detailed reviews of leases to extract key information, including service charges apportionment clauses, maintenance obligations, and any variations impacting cost allocation.
• Identify and escalate discrepancies to the Project Lead.
• Analyse extracted data to determine correct service charge apportionment and accurately log findings in a joint spreadsheet, maintaining consistent formatting, categorisation, version control, and audit trails for all updates.
• Identify and review additional leases based on initial findings and set criteria, applying risk-based prioritisation to address anomalies or complex cases promptly and ensure comprehensive coverage.
• Ensure all activities comply with legal, regulatory, and organisational standards.
• Prepare summary reports highlighting key findings, outstanding issues, and recommendations for corrective action.

Key Skills:

• Familiar with residential leases and service charge apportionments.
• Good spoken and written English.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organisational skills, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Proficiency using legal databases and MS Office suite.
• Legal drafting skills.
• Must be immediately available or on short notice.

Salary (Rate): £27.56 Hourly

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other