Legal Administrator

We're looking for a Legal Administrator to join our Residential Property department at our offices in Central Guildford. Situated close to Tungstate in the heart of Guildford, our offices are conveniently located within walking distance of the main shops and restaurants. In this role, you'll be an integral part of our highly experienced specialist conveyancing team, who provide comprehensive legal advice and guidance throughout the property buying and selling process to ensure a seamless and successful transaction.
More about us: Formed via a merger in 2020, Moore Barlow recently launched its refreshed brand and firmly positioned itself as a leading regional law firm. We are featured in The Times’ Best Law Firms 2024 list, and consistently achieve recognition for the quality of our services in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners.

We strive to develop long-term working relationships with our clients by ensuring that we deliver our services with empathy, expertise, and a “Human-First” approach. We are now 450 people, including 272 lawyers and 72 Partners, with offices across the South-East and London.

Day to day:
Our team of experienced solicitors specialise in residential conveyancing and are dedicated to providing exceptional service to our clients. The team at Moore Barlow takes pride in approaching property transactions with this understanding, striving to make the process as smooth and stress-free as possible.

Our Legal Administrators are essential members of our team, responsible for managing their own tasks while also providing support to colleagues on more intricate issues. Your daily responsibilities will encompass a blend of secretarial and administrative duties, including:

• Managing incoming post promptly
• Assisting with dictation
• Opening files
• Drafting contracts and transfer documents
• Preparing completion statements and land registry applications
• Handling Stamp Duty Land Tax returns
• Engaging with clients and estate agents on a daily basis

About you:

Above all, we pride ourselves on being a friendly and inclusive team, and we value these qualities in potential candidates. Ideally, you'll be someone who is approachable and adaptable.

You might be a recent law graduate or an individual currently undertaking or having completed the LPC, eager to advance your career. While previous experience within a property team would be advantageous, we're equally interested in hearing from those with relevant work or academic background demonstrating a genuine interest in this field.
If you have this experience and are seeking to join a growing and professional law firm - we'd strongly encourage you to apply.

We are Moore Barlow, a top regional career law firm with a simple mission – to make a difference.
We support our clients and the communities we help through providing outstanding legal services with empathy and expertise. A full service law firm, we support these core client groups: Individuals & Families, Entrepreneurial Businesses & Organisations and Personal/Catastrophic Injury & Medical Negligence.
We are passionate about making a difference to our people, their careers and care deeply about their experience at work. Moore Barlow aims to be recognised as the best career law firm to work for. This means that we care as much about your career as you do. So whether you join us early in your career, in one of our outstanding business support functions or are continuing an already rich career in law, you’ll find Moore Barlow a great place to further build your experience.
With numerous top-tier rankings in law, exceptional quality of work and named a Times Top 100 best law firm to work for, we have big plans. We are seeking passionate, human-focused individuals like you as we continue to grow. With over 450 dedicated professionals including 70 Partners and 272 Lawyers, Moore Barlow offers substantial opportunity for further advancement and personal development.

What we can offer

Our culture is open, diverse and inclusive and we look for likeminded individuals who recognise that it’s this individuality that allows us to be truly different to other firms. Everything we do is underpinned by the Moore Barlow Way, which is a set of values and principles to ensure consistency of experience no matter which team you work within.

As a true career firm, we seek to reward the great work our people undertake with continued personal development opportunities. We have big plans for growth, and we see that this creates extensive opportunity for our people as we move towards our long-term ambitions.

In most of our roles, we are also open to supporting hybrid, flexible working and different work patterns. What you do outside of work is as important as your time inside of work – and we want to strike the right balance for both the individual and the firm.

We also offer great benefits including 28 days’ annual leave, private medical insurance, income protection, life assurance, firmwide bonus scheme and a generous pension scheme.

If you’re seeking to join a firm that seeks to provide a personal and highly engaging place to work – we are confident that you’ll find this at Moore Barlow.