Conveyancing Team Leader

We are looking for an experienced Conveyancing Team Leader to join our property team. This office-based role, with hybrid working options, will involve supervising and supporting a team of conveyancers and assistants. You will manage a diverse caseload of residential property matters; including sales, purchases, remortgages, and transfers of equity, while ensuring cases progress efficiently, and with a strong focus on client service.

The successful candidate will join a forward-thinking firm, playing a key role in delivering high-quality legal advice, mentoring colleagues, and driving ongoing improvements in processes and service delivery.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead, supervise and develop a team of conveyancing fee earners and assistants; allocate work, monitor performance, provide coaching and mentoring, conduct regular 1:1s and assist with recruitment and induction as required.

• Manage and maintain a personal caseload of residential property matters from instruction to completion, including freehold and leasehold sales and purchases, remortgages and transfers of equity; ensure matters progress in line with agreed timescales and client expectations.

• Oversee quality and compliance across the team’s files; review and approve transactional documentation such as contracts, transfers, priority paperwork, replies to pre-contract enquiries and requisitions on title to ensure accuracy and adherence to lender and firm requirements.

• Conduct and review title investigations, identify and manage title defects, leasehold issues and other risks; escalate complex or high-risk matters to senior management and liaise with external counsel where necessary.

• Drive efficient case progression by liaising proactively with clients, estate agents, mortgage lenders, surveyors, other firms and third parties to obtain information, chase outstanding actions and co-ordinate transactions to completion.

• Ensure accurate file records and documentation on the case management system; promote consistent file note practice, support timely time recording and billing and prepare completion statements and client correspondence as required.

Key skills and experience:

• Proven experience in residential conveyancing within a law firm or conveyancing practice, ideally with experience leading or supervising a team; previous role as a senior conveyancer, fee earner, senior paralegal or qualified solicitor desirable.

• Strong technical knowledge of residential conveyancing including searches, title and leasehold issues, mortgage documentation, SDLT and completion accounting.

• Demonstrable leadership skills with the ability to motivate, manage performance and develop colleagues while maintaining a busy personal caseload.

• Excellent drafting and document review skills with a high level of attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate work within deadlines.

• Highly organised with the ability to prioritise competing demands, manage a varied caseload, meet client and lender timescales and work effectively in a hybrid working environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with a professional, client-focused manner when dealing with clients and third parties.

• Familiarity with case management systems, electronic document management and Microsoft Office applications; comfortable supporting the adoption of new systems and document automation tools.