Expert Recruits are thrilled to be supporting a Top 100 law firm in their search for a Professional Support Lawyer within their Housing Management & Property Litigation team.
This is a hybrid opportunity where you’d be able to choose one of the Firm’s 4 offices as your base location (London, Leeds, Birmingham or Colchester).
Joining one of the largest teams in the market where they deal with over 100 registered providers advising on all aspects of housing management and property litigation. The team also act for private organisations, land owners, developers, investors, charities and local authorities.
As an experienced Professional Support Lawyer, you’ll need to be able to demonstrate strong awareness of housing and property litigation law, to observe and inform on the fast-moving developments in relation to the department’s practice areas.
Day to day you’ll be responsible for:
- Reporting legal updates and developments
- Coordinating and maintaining the bank of precedents
- Providing training and new joiner support
- Assisting the fee earners / Partners with large project work as & when required
You’ll need a minimum of five years PQE in Housing or Property Litigation law with a strong academic background to be considered for this role. As the ideal candidate, you will need to possess excellent communication skills with exceptional attention to detail. You’ll need to enjoy engaging with people and have the ability to exercise own judgement without supervision. You must be able to identify key legal issues in the most complex of cases with the ability to explain complex legal points to more junior colleagues and/or present them in briefing notes.
An important part of the role is to provide direct support to the senior fee earners, partners and wider team, whilst also helping with the management and development of junior fee earners.
The firm offer a healthy work-life balance, highly competitive salary and benefits package which includes a generous pension, private medical insurance, death in service coverage, income replacement insurance, and an excellent employee support programme.
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