Laura is a Chartered Legal Executive with Conveyancing Practising Rights.  She works in the Residential Property Department, assisted by Sandra Wesolek (Trainee Legal Executive), Gillian Marshall (Conveyancing Assistant) and Hannah Morris (Paralegal).

Laura helps a variety of people to achieve their housing goals, including first time buyers, buy to let companies and those downsizing.  

Key Skills

• New-build retirement purchases

• Freehold and lease sales and purchases

• Unregistered sales and purchases

• First registrations

• Re-mortgages

• Adverse possession claims

• Reclaiming higher rate stamp duty land tax following sale of main residence

Experience

• Laura is approachable and always on hand to deal with client (and often their families) enquiries and concerns.

• Running an efficient and happy team to meet client goals and expectations.

• Helping clients to meet developer exchange and completion deadlines to ensure they benefit from the incentives being offered.

• Assisting many clients at the end of the last stamp duty holiday so they could pay the lower rate stamp duty on their purchases and save money.

• Starting as receptionist at a local law firm, progressing to a secretary then to conveyancing assistant, then to a fee earner and now an Associate at Hughes Paddison.

• Completing on over 70 house sale and purchases in one day to meet the developer’s year-end deadline day.

Memberships 

• Fellow of Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEx)
• CILEX Conveyancing Practising Rights
• Hughes Paddison Social Committee Member
• Hughes Paddison Charity Committee Member
• Hughes Paddison Book Club

Outside of work

• Going to gigs locally and further afield, as well as attending the odd festival. Combining a holiday with a festival abroad.

• Playing in a local netball team once a week - who are sometimes successful!

• Laura recently ran the Cheltenham Half Marathon for Hughes Paddison’s Charity of the Year, Winston’s Wish, and is hoping to keep up running, although not such great distances!