Lawyer – F/ILEX, Private Client – Probate and Conveyancing
We currently have a job vacancy for a Lawyer – F/ILEX, Private Client – Probate and Conveyancing work. £25/40K
Our client an expanding local law firm is seeing to appoint the above professional. They would consider a fee earner who is part qualified ILEX. The important factor is being able to administer work quickly and accurately.
Probate Job Content
• All administration matters including telephone work and some typing.
• Interviewing clients and advising on probate matters.
• Administration of Estates including preparation of IHT400, IHT205 and Oaths, IHT calculations, affidavits, deeds of variation, deeds of appointment valuing shares, making claims for relief on loss on sale of shares and land, estate accounts.
• Income Tax Returns.
• Some administration of Trusts and trust accounts.
• Preparation of Enduring Power of Attorney, registration of Enduring of Attorney and Receivership Accounts.
• Preparing and submitting forms FR1, AP1, TR1, AS1 and RX3.
Conveyancing Job Content
• Taking instructions from clients.
• Sending terms of engagement and estimates of fees and disbursements.
• Obtaining or checking Land Registry documents or title deeds (if the land is unregistered).
• Drafting or checking sales contracts and agreeing terms with the lawyer acting for the other party to the transaction.
• Collating and sending or checking supporting documents.
• Exchanging contracts and completing the transaction.
• Dealing with all financial aspects of a transaction.
• If the property is leasehold, obtaining the landlord’s agreement to the sale or the change of mortgage and dealing with apportionments of rent and service charges.
• Specific tasks for sales transactions include preparing the seller’s property information form, repayment of charges and paying the estate agent’s fee.
• Carrying out and checking pre-contract searches by checking whether the property is affected by local authority proposals, leases, easements or covenants, mortgages, land tax, susceptibility to flooding or subsidence, or liability for unsound building structures and repairs.
• Receiving and checking mortgage instructions from lenders and undertaking specific tasks required.
• Preparing transfer and mortgage deeds.
• Receiving mortgage funds.
• Paying Stamp Duty and Land Tax and dealing with the registration of client and lender with the Land Registry.
Please submit your CV to either Jonny Scott Slater or Ashley Armstrong post@cornwallexecutive.co.uk.
01872 274227 10am – 5pm
Manager / Property Conveyancer
We currently have a job vacancy for a Manager / Property Conveyancer – £35K. (Devon or Cornwall based, Lawyer, F/ILEX or QBE).
Our client an expanding law firm are seeking to appoint a new Manager of Property Conveyancing. You will be managing a team involved in processing property conveyancing work that originates from four offices based throughout the counties of both Cornwall and Devon.
Marketing, Business Origination and Business Generation skills are key requirements for this role, as well as the ability to conveyance for mainly private property clients. Experience of commercial work could be advantageous, but not a deal breaker.
We have been retained to locate a Property Lawyer: – Solicitor, F/ILEX Diploma Conveyancer or a Professional Conveyancer who is part-qualified or time served.
This is a management position that could progress to a partner appointment.
The successful candidate could be working/based in any of our client’s offices. For further details please contact Jonny Scott Slater or Ashley Armstrong – 01872 274227 – post@cornwallexecutive.co.uk
Key job experience includes:
•Taking instructions from clients -
•Managing, training and motivating the conveyancing team -
•Sending terms of engagement and estimates of fees and disbursements to clients -
•Obtaining or checking Land Registry documents or title deeds (if the land is unregistered) -
•Drafting or checking sales contracts and agreeing terms with the lawyer acting for the other party -
•Collating and sending or checking supporting documents -
•Exchanging contracts and completing the transaction -
•Dealing with all financial aspects of a transaction -
•If the property is leasehold, obtaining the landlord’s agreement to the sale or the change of mortgage and dealing with apportionments of rent and service charges -
•Marketing and selling the business to new and existing clients -
•Joining groups, parties and associations that will lead to new business generation opportunities –
•Extensive and in-depth networking that could lead to new business opportunities –
Specific tasks for purchase transactions include:
•Carrying out and checking pre-contract searches by checking whether the property is affected by local authority proposals, leases, easements or covenants, mortgages, land tax, susceptibility to flooding or subsidence, or liability for unsound building structures and repairs –
•Receiving and checking mortgage instructions from lenders and undertaking specific tasks required –
•Preparing transfer and mortgage deeds –
•Receiving mortgage funds –
•Paying Stamp Duty and Land Tax and dealing with the registration of client and lender with the Land Registry – •Researching information, communicating with clients and others in person and on the telephone, by letter or by email, completing forms and drafting documents –
•Protection of clients’ interests at all times, while taking precautions against potential fraud and money laundering –
•Use and management of a computerised case management system.
Sales Manager in Cornwall
Details of a Sales Manager job vacancy in Cornwall – Salary Negotiable, Bonus and Vehicle.
Our valued client has many customers based throughout Cornwall. They pride themselves on providing an excellent customer service and have expansion plans ready for activation.
We are seeking a dynamic Sales Manager with additional experience in marketing practise and Internet/website awareness. The job specification is as follows.
·Managing a department consisting of two sales professionals and three accounts personnel.
·Provide sales training for salesmen and drivers who have interaction with customers.
·Attract new high spend customers.
·Maintain existing customer base.
·Train administration staff in sales telephone calls
·Set high levels of customer service
·Sales targets
·Be part of the company management team
·Ensure company profitability and focus on budgeting
·New product development
·Manage new website development
·Marketing strategy for the business
·Product awareness
·Create staff productivity incentive scheme
·Liaison with buying function
·Develop a new Customer Care Database
Please send your CV to post@cornwallexecutive.co.uk Confidentiality is assured at all times. Your CV can be sent to our client with your name and current employer excluded. You will know the name of our client before your CV is submitted.
Salary package is to be negotiated on final interview.
Telephone – 01872 274227 ask for Jonny Scott Slater.
Legal Secretary and PA
We have a job vacancy for a Legal Secretary and Personal Assistant – Litigation, Property and Family work.
Small Boutique Law Firm.
Working with three Partners
Administration and Documentation job content
Salary negotiable according to experience.
Graduate Secretary, ILEX, GCSE at Advanced Level entrant status
Possible future progression setting up a Micro Human Resources Department or a move into Property Conveyancing.
Tip-Top WP skills required.
Ideally we are seeking to find a skilled professional secretary who has law firm experience. In this particular role you will be working supporting three Partners. All are very busy with their demanding and important fee earning schedules. We are seeking a secretary that has experience working in a busy industrious legal office. Equipped with all the latest computer systems and software applications. Our ideal candidate may be working locally or alternatively at a large City law firm. Quite probably thinking about relocation possibilities, journeying to a new, interesting and exciting county. The cultural mix of seaside and country living certainly has plenty to offer. It’s definitely a far cry from the urban hustle and bustle of routine city life.
The remuneration salary package is negotiable. My clients wish to see all CV’s, leaving “no stone unturned”. This is the chance to join and work for a law firm that is expanding, offering interesting career prospects for the ambitious. Our client’s legal practice has a healthy proportion of valuable private client work that is encouragingly mixed with public funded legal cases/issues.
The ideal and successful candidate will be a professional, well organised and confident in dealing with clients, colleagues and third parties both F2F and on the telephone. Client interface is especially important when working in a legal practice that has a prime focus in developing the Private Client business portfolio. Dealing with private clients in a professional and dignified manner, increases our client’s chances of business referral and repeat instructions.
This is to be considered predominantly a Personal Assistant role. But there will be included administrative duties and documentation work that must be carried out to a very high standard. Other functions will include arranging travel, and pro-active diary management. The key to success in this particular secretarial role is organisation and careful future planning.
Candidates, who have ILEX studies/qualification, Graduation (LLB or LLM); possess advanced Level GCSE qualifications – “will be of special interest to our client”. Additionally, a legal secretary- administration-documentation time served expert, will also qualify for application for this unique career position.
Long to medium term career advancement opportunities could include, – Learning Property Conveyancing. Or alternatively setting up a part-time Micro HR function as the law firm grows in both numbers of employees and financial turn over.
To be successful with your application, we are seeking candidates with the relevant experience accompanied by personality, confidence and svelte communication skills.
Computer Programmer – Cornwall
Computer Programmer job in Cornwall. Salary Package Negotiable.
New Scripting and Macro Languages
C.Net (2005)
SQL (2005/2008)
IIS & Web Services
Our client an expanding and specialist local IT Services Company has asked us to locate the above mentioned systems professional.
You could be working in Cornwall and currently seeking a new career position that is offering excellent future scope for work advancement. Your programming and IT skill-set are genuinely and eagerly sought by our client. They currently have many ongoing work projects, from customers based through out the UK.
We would also like to talk to IT professional currently looking or thinking about relocation to Cornwall. You could be working in any major city in the UK. Bored and fed up with your urban existence? Now is the chance to break out and relocate to sunny Cornwall.
This particular role won’t be just a desk-based job either. You’ll be encouraged to get to know the clients personally. Chairing F2F meetings, including the initial consultation and presentation could be part of your job too.
Our client would also consider an application from a fresh and keen IT Graduate. Living and working in Cornwall certainly has some great life style benefits. Our delightful county has excellent world-class recreational and sporting facilities for all to use.
Surfing the great ocean breaks along the Cornish coastline is a life-enhancing and challenging experience. The time to relocate is now. It’s going to be the beach at the weekend, watching those sets of wave’s role in….
Employment Lawyers – Associates / Partner
We are currently looking to fill a client’s job vacancies for Employment Lawyers, including Associates and a Salaried Partner.
Salaries to range from £36 to 150k+ depending on roles and experience.
Our client, an expanding Law firm with AAA+ rated corporate expansion plans.
Three new offices planned for the immediate future.
All with large Employment Law departments
We are seeking a new dynamic overall Department Head and two trusty knowledgeable Associates
A definite career opportunity, for the ultra ambitious.
You should possess a client following that is transportable and loyal.
Our Client has retained our search firm to find three key members for an expansion project that will create three new Employment law teams. You currently an ambitious and hard working Employment Lawyer, possibly working in one of the following counties – Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire or Cornwall. You have had no more than two former employers and should be seeking a “progressive golden-step-up” in both terms of responsibility and future earnings potential. Our task is to recruit these three senior key members for the new initial lead employment team. We are seeking to find an Associate/Salaried Partner, secondly two aspiring employment law Associates.
Our ideal primary candidate will be an expert in “first point of client contact”. An employment professional who really knows how to immediately win a new clients confidence, trust and interest in that first and very vital meeting. Managing Directors, Business Owners and HR will have initial trust and faith in your sharp professional business acumen and employment law expertise. Knowing what to say, when to say and how to say it, are the three crucial key points on new account business capture. It’s your business experience, commercial intelligence, charm and charisma that win these new accumulating corporate accounts and very importantly, retain all the existing business accounts securely. The competition on the corporate highway is always molten white hot.
This is the territory where you excel; your confidence is now at an all time high and its time to seek change. A change for the better, a change going one way and that’s up.
We are seeking candidates that have substantial experience and expertise in Employment Law, Business Development and Marketing. Additionally you will have the desire to build large employment teams at both of our clients Exeter and Bristol offices.
Show us your outstanding past, current business results and commercial achievements. Management skills and new ideas for ultimate client customer service and we will open the locked door of opportunity for you. Our successful candidate will head up two large employment business teams, with the prospects to head a further third office in the future. If you’re the ambitious Associate, vital career opportunities are going to be plenty; additionally the pace will be steaming hot, fast and furious.
The ideal Employment law professionals will have solid respondent employment law experience. Your expertise in Employment law will be precise and thorough. You will be able to advise clients on both contentious and non contentious employment matters including – Redundancy, Discrimination, Contractual Issues, Employees Rights, Employer Law Advice, Partnership Law, Commercial Agency Advice, Unfair Dismissal, Compromise Agreements, Contracts, Policies and Procedures, Employment Disputes, Tribunals, Termination of Employment, Compromise Agreements, Employee Benefits, Business Immigration, Restrictive Covenants, Team Moves, Injunctions, Merger and Acquisition complexities, Professional Negligence, Defamation, Bonus Disputes, Bullying and Harassment, Contracts, Discrimination at work, Dismissal, FSA Investigations, Grievance and Disciplinary Hearings, Maternity & Paternity Related Issues, Military Employment Claims, Part Time Workers, Privacy at Work, Professional Discipline, Whistle blowing and Senior Executive. These are all categories of employment law work that your clients need intricate, vital assistance and guidance with.
Applications are invited on a nationwide basis, especially from the counties of Devon, Somerset, Wiltshire and Cornwall. Please telephone 01872 274227 and we will assist you in a private and confidential manner. Ask for either Jonny Scott-Slater or Ashley Armstrong.
FMCG Sales Manager
We currently have a FMCG Sales Manager job vacancy in Cornwall, working within the field of Food Products – £20 to 40k.
Our client is an established family business that supplies fresh food produce to customers throughout the county of Cornwall.
Their clients are – hotels, shops, restaurants, cafés, camp sites, schools, collages, factories, businesses and private individuals.
Ideally we are seeking a candidate with food sales experience who has all the right business contacts established and in place. But our door will be open to keen sales professionals looking to get into the FMCG distribution arena. A steady track record is paramount, coupled with the experience of managing a small but very busy dynamic sales team.
You will be operating the business owner’s personal client-list. A portfolio of buyers that have been steadily established cultivated and nurtured over the many years of successful trading. Our valued client is definitely looking for a sales professional who he can trust. A professional who will hopefully add to the current successful business structure, by offering a new polished set of personal dynamics, enthusiasm and knowledge.
An intricate knowledge of all known Cornwall based commercial fresh produce consumers will be of great value to our client. If you are on first name terms with the buyers of fresh produce, then we would really like to speak to you.
Candidates that work for Break Brothers, 3663, Booker, DBC Food and other known nationwide food distribution businesses will be of great interest to us and our valued client. Especially if your territory is Cornwall.
We invite applications from candidates on a nationwide basis. Cornwall is a fabulous county in which to reside and work. With its fabulous rugged coastlines, quaint fisherman’s harbours, sandy golden beaches and picture postcard country views.
To apply, email your CV to post@cornwallexecutive.co.uk or call Jonny Scott-Slater on 01872 274 227.
Dispute Resolution Lawyer – Cornwall & Devon
We currently have a dispute resolution job vacancy in Cornwall and Devon, UK. NQ-3PQE – £27-35K
Our law firm client’s business is expanding, the office is busy, phones are ringing, faxes always buzzing, instruction emails flowing and the meeting rooms are booked days in advance. Progression and commercial expansion have resulted in the need to hire an additional dispute resolution lawyer.
We seek a legal professional, maybe newly qualified or experience ranging up to three years PQE. Our client’s legally represent – Plc’s, property companies, property developers, owner managed businesses, housing associations, charities, franchises, landowners, bio-agricultural businesses, scientific, manufacturing, shipping, fishing, multi-site retail, supermarket chains local authorities and private individuals.
As you know, the best way to dissolve a business or personal dispute is not always in the courts. Working in a trusting partnership with the valued corporate or private client, hopefully always leads to the best commercial, financial and most agreeable outcome. Our client is a master of Dispute Resolution and all associated legal solutions, – involving adjudication, arbitration, litigation and mediation.
Resolving the business or personal dispute begins with asking all the right questions at initial consultation. Once instructed, our client proceeds with individual case analysis, legal strategy to be used and intricate financial risk assessment. The client is then given a choice of options that are considered the best way forward for a successful and agreeable outcome.
Our law firm clients are experts in business and personal disputes such as – Contract and commercial, construction, regulatory litigation, professional negligence, insurance and volume debt recovery, employment, pensions, intellectual property, real estate, complex and confusing contracts, shareholders, directors and partnerships, property including housing, landlord and tenant, boundaries and rights of way, disputed debts, professional negligence, insolvency, intellectual property, construction, emergency procedures, such as injunctions, environmental cases and carriage of goods, disputed wills and trusts, business crime, business law, charities, commercial property, employment and HR issues, health & safety, hospitality, insurance disputes, public sector liability, retail disputes, sports contracts and endorsements, premises contracts and leases, construction & engineering, contentious on going probate, quick fix probate, corporate, commercial & international disputes, housing, leasehold & enfranchisement, gaming and licensing, passing off and IT disputes, planning, environmental & compulsory purchase, professional negligence, property disputes including landlord & tenant, business crime and franchises.
We welcome applications from lawyers currently living in all counties nationwide. Maybe you want to return to Cornwall-Devon from the City or a local lawyer looking for a new challenging position.
Please email your CV to post@cornwallexecutive.co.uk or telephone Jonny Scott Slater or Ashley Armstrong – 01872 274227.
Law Firm Practice Manager in Cornwall
We currently have a law firm practice manager job vacancy in Cornwall – £30 to 40k.
Our client, an expanding law firm in Cornwall are seeking to appoint a new Practice Manager. We could be looking for either a business accounts professional or a general practice manager. If you have both skill sets and have worked for a law firm, then you could be ideal.
Work experience sought – Payroll, invoicing to clients, management accounts, payment of TT’s, corporation tax returns, employment matters, bookkeeping, premises, staff appraisals and company cars.
This is an interesting and rewarding job, ideal for – An accountant in chartered practice, a chartered accountancy practice manager, a practice manager or an HR professional looking for a new role with accountancy content.
Call 01872 274 227 to apply or discuss. Email your CV to post@cornwallexecutive.co.uk
Related information: Law firms Cornwall at South West Life.
Assistant Analyst – Fund Management
We have a Graduate / Trainee job vacancy for an Assistant Analyst in Fund / Hedge Management – £15 to 27k.
Degree in Mathematics, Accountancy, International Finance or possibly newly qualified CFA, ACA or ACCA.
Interested in the world of fund/hedge management, economic and political analytics.
A real career opportunity in Cornwall…..
Working as an assistant investment analyst, your daily activities involve providing ideas, information and research that financial managers can use in conjunction with making investment decisions in relation to investment portfolios that they manage.
You will be involved with a broad range of activities and disciplines including – spreadsheet analytics, reviewing loan applications, making investment memorandums, reviewing company accounts, analysing statistical and economic data. Monitor political movements and events; develop an expertise in interpreting financial information that is associated with a current transaction.
Be involved in researching financial information relating to specific corporate transactional SME companies – Looking at new sets of accounts, profit-loss and cash flow statements. Keeping up to date regarding market developments, new investment products and movements in the economy. Study of economic implications that may affect investment decisions and recording these. Focus on financial news using media sources, producing summaries of the required research for the financial managers relating to current projects. Liaison with client managers of companies by email and telephone.
Our candidate will have initiative and motivation to research, analyse and evaluate.
Possess high levels of natural numeric ability.
Have an excellent command/style of both verbal and written English.
Maintain an interest in current affairs.
Be a decisive team player.
Thorough knowledge of Microsoft Office and Excel software.
Please telephone 01872 274227 & send your CV to post@cornwallexecutive.co.uk
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