About the team

Our Birmingham Real Estate team is led by Partner Mitchell Ball who is listed as a Recommended Lawyer in The Legal 500 (2024 edition). He is also ranked as leading Individual in Chambers & Partners (2024 edition). Mitchell is a transactional commercial property lawyer dealing with a variety of large-scale projects and also planning work being a Legal Associate of the Royal Town Planning Institute.

About the role

The team is in expansion mode due to client demand and are looking for an additional lawyer to join them and support the ongoing challenging workload. This role would suit a lawyer with around 2 4 years experience gained within a strong regional or City firm although we are flexible and would consider candidates with greater experience. The candidate must therefore be able to manage a busy caseload and deliver excellent client service with minimal supervision and thus be flexible to support the wider team across a wider range of workstreams.

Range of Work

• The role will provide exposure to a wide range of real estate work on behalf of both private sector and local authority clients.

• This will include freehold acquisitions and disposals landlord and tenant work generalproperty management work and some corporate support.

• The candidate would be expected to have a degree of experience with general freehold and leasehold work such that they can work towards managing a portfolio of this work with supervision as appropriate.

• The role will also involve supporting a partner with property development and regeneration work with a view to developing experience in this area. The team is involved in some major regeneration and land promotion work which provides a great opportunity to be involved in high profile projects throughout the country.

Key Responsibilities

• To work to a consistently high level and to provide an exemplary level of client service and care.

• Competent financial management and commercial awareness including accurate time recording billing achievement of firm delivered targets and management of WIP.

• To contribute actively toward business development opportunities to ensure the retention of existing clients and expansion of business.

• To ensure at all times that you maintain up to date technical expertise.

• To be accountable for your own personal development and to continuously develop interpersonal and soft skills.

• To be competent at all times in accordance with the SRA competence standards

• To carry out any other such reasonable tasks that may be required from time to time.

• Have directly relevant previous experience and have the correct level of post qualified experience (PQE) for the role in question.

• To have a strong commercial acumen and understanding of the industry and business of the client.

• A proven track record of competent financial management ability to meet client expectations and sound case management skills.

• Good IT skills experience and confidence with using case management systems electronic time recording and general Microsoft packages.

• To be a self-starting friendly individual with excellent interpersonal skills.

• To be able to consistently demonstrate and embody the firms values.

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