Real Estate NQ
Are you keen to find an exciting new role where you will be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking, agile team? If so, come and join us on the journey.
Why Michelmores? Michelmores is the destination law firm for the ambitious, the imaginative and the distinctive. We help enterprises and individuals navigate change to find a positive future.
We are a flexible, friendly and inclusive organisation with as clear a focus on fresh thinking as we have on growth and success. We value and nurture our people’s potential and inspiration and give them a creative, open and collaborative environment in which to develop a career and succeed.
Wherever you have begun your career in law, we think that you’ll find Michelmores different. From day one, we encourage our solicitors to forge direct client relationships and expand their understanding and knowledge of areas that interest them— developing an understanding of commercial challenges and opportunities, rather than just knowing the law. We nurture creative and commercial thinking to help in your long-term career success – it mirrors our approach to ensuring the very best outcomes for our clients too.
Our Newly Qualified (NQ) training programme focuses on supporting colleagues transition to a NQ solicitor. The programme is designed to cover a range of topics including career development and financial training as well as build networks and facilitate collaboration, creating a real sense of togetherness across our NQ group to develop your career with the Firm.
What sort of work? Right now, our highly regarded Real Estate group is looking for a Solicitor to join our growing Transactional Real Estate (TRE) team. This role will support the TRE team in delivering first class service to its clients. The role provides a varied workload including:
- Residential development work acting for wide range of developers and landowners, including setting up sites for disposal of dwellings and sale of affordable housing
- Strategic land work acting for promoters and landowners including promotion agreements and options and linking with our leading private wealth practice
- Landlord and tenant and commercial real estate and development work – acting for broad spectrum of corporates, public authorities, trusts, charities and landowners and including a range of infrastructure and sustainable development projects
- Energy work including projects across a range of energy technologies and BESS and servicing a range of leading energy company clients
The role will encompass a range of work within these areas depending on your enthusiasm and experience.
Why this team? Our TRE Team is a leading real estate team with 40 colleagues operating across all offices and including many lawyers named as leading individuals in Chambers and Partners.
The team have a market leading profile in residential development and strategic land, sustainable economy and energy work and commercial real estate work.
The team prides itself on its highly commercial, collaborative and creative approach. It services its City, national and south west client base with lawyers working together across its highly aligned Exeter, Bristol, London and Cheltenham office bases.
How do we work? We take a flexible, agile approach to working patterns. As a team we agree together on the best working arrangements that will enable each of us to provide exceptional client service, to collaborate and connect with colleagues, and to achieve the right home/work balance. Most people in the team choose to work at least half their working week in the office, with the balance of time spent working from home. We pride ourselves on our high-performance culture whilst offering a good work/life balance.
As a Firm we are committed to supporting our people across all levels to achieve the balance they need. We are open to talk flexible working and to empower any candidate to put forward a flexible working pattern to meet their needs.
Who are we looking for? We are looking for somebody who will understand our values and thrive in our culture. The role will be based in our Exeter office and the ideal candidate will have:
- Undertaken a trainee seat in commercial real estate practice.
- Exhibit high levels of client service (both to internal and external clients).
- A genuine interest in promoting business development opportunities.
Other skills required include:
- A commercial, creative and 'Can do' approach to work and an ability to provide clients with solutions.
- An interest in and an ability to quickly understand the client's business is essential.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; effective communicator at all levels (written and verbal).
- Enthusiastic, friendly team player.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and deadlines in a flexible and proactive way.
- Understand the importance of confidentiality and use of tact and discretion.
- Excellent work ethic, committed to working towards goals with enthusiasm and career commitment and on-going learning and development.
This is a great opportunity to join a Firm which believes potential, inspiration, and teamwork should be valued and nurtured.
We work hard to create and sustain an open and collaborative environment. We embrace change and constantly evolve to meet our people’s diverse needs, in the same way that we help our clients to navigate and stay ahead of developments, to move forward together.
Next Steps To apply please click below or if you would like to talk to someone about the role, please call Lisa Gater, Recruitment Business Partner, on 07355677986.
Michelmores LLP is an Equal Opportunities Employer
We do not discriminate on grounds of race, gender, marital status, age, religion, colour, nationality, ethnic origin, disability or sexual orientation in the selection, recruitment and treatment of our staff.
View our Inclusion and Belonging pages for more information.
*No agencies please – any agency assistance will be via invitation only. Please note any speculative candidates submitted via agencies without invitation will not be considered as represented by that agent.
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