Real Estate Senior Associate/Partner

Are you a Real Estate Senior Associate or Partner looking for a springboard for career progression? This firm are a top choice for senior lawyers seeking to move away from the ordinary run of the mill private practice. They are innovative, dynamic, and pioneering in the work that they do.

The Partnership is very well run and this opportunity provides entrepreneurial and driven individuals the chance to come on board and help to continue to pave the way to excellence.

The Firm

This legal 500 and chambers ranked firm have a highly regarded reputation in and around the North West area. They have a rich heritage dating back several decades and are a well-known name in the local community.

Over recent years, the firm have grown organically and have appointed several heavy-hitting Lawyers. They continue to bolster their departments with key strategic hires, the firm has good growth planned over the next 24 months, which includes the opening of news offices.

The practice invests heavily into ensuring they are using and utilising the best technology available. They have good infrastructure and excellent support teams, all allowing fee earners to be as streamlined as possible, allowing you more time to focus on generating fee's and having more in the way of client contact.

The practice has a strong leadership team. They have a growing number of home-grown partners, which demonstrates well, their level of career development and investment. They have an excellent reputation for delivering industry leading training, which carries on throughout the duration of a Lawyers career. They also have outside organisations come into the firm to deliver training on a wide range of subject matters.

Partners in the firm are very accessible and it is commonplace to find NQ solicitors sitting side on side with partners. Often junior lawyers will deal with a complexity of work that places them ahead of their years of PQE. Everyone is encouraging to get involved with the firms marketing and networking events, they hold regular interesting events that staff of all levels will get involved in.

You will find that the firm prides itself on dealing with a high-quality of work. They believe in offering real value to clients matters and charging well for the work that they do. On the business side they often as an extension to the firm's business.

The firm believe in work-life balance and offer agile working, they house many working parents and offer work from home.

The Role

The firm is looking for an entrepreneurial Real Estate Senior Associate / Partner to join their buzzing central Leeds office.

You will work closely with the other Partners within the Commercial Property department, and more generally across the firm, to drive the business forwards. You will work as part of a driven and commercially successful leadership team.

You will deal with a broad client base covering many industry sectors, the sheer level of variety will make for an interesting caseload. Industry sectors will include but not be limited to; Healthcare, Industrial, Leisure, Retail, Transport and Finance.

Their clients include builders, landowners, developers, property management companies, corporate occupiers, banks, lenders, investors and charities. You will be provided with the tools to further develop your technical knowledge and daily tasks will involve sales and purchases of commercial premises, commercial leases, licenses to assign, investment and finance.

This role comes with strong prospects to progress, in line with the growth agenda. The firm are succession planning are keen to find the next generation of senior Lawyers.

Requirements

• You will be a Real Estate Solicitor with at least 8 years PQE (there is no upper limit regarding the amount of PQE, there is no upper limit regarding the amount of experience)
• You will have first-class communication, outstanding business development skills and an entrepreneurial flair
• Experience of overseeing a team is desirable, however not essential
• A transferable client base or regional contacts is highly advantageous
• Salary is competitive and negotiable depending on your level of experience, on offer is an excellent benefits package and very lucrative bonus scheme

This is an exciting opportunity for a Real Estate Solicitor Senior Associate / Partner to join this flourishing, legal 500 ranked firm based in the centre of Leeds.

Apply now for immediate consideration or feel free to give me a call for a confidential conversation.