Professional Support Lawyer

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.

We believe that whatever your legal experience, you’ll find Michelmores different. From day one we encourage our people to forge 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.

What sort of work? Right now, our highly regarded Agricultural team is looking for a Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) to join their existing PSL team. This role will have a real focus on facilitating effective knowledge sharing to enable the Agriculture team to remain at the forefront of law and practice. The work of the PSL team includes:

• Facilitating the provision of a learning and development programme and schedule for Agriculture which encompasses black letter law training, knowledge sharing sessions and development sessions.
• Providing support to Agriculture lawyers and to rural surveyors assisting with queries that arise on transactions or client matters.
• Providing and maintaining quality documentation and precedents for use by lawyers and surveyors in Agriculture and preparing bespoke precedents for particular Estates and other clients.
• Writing articles and encourage and facilitate production of articles by lawyers.
• Providing training to the Agriculture team and externally to clients.

Why this team? Our highly regarded Agriculture team is ranked in the Top Tier in Chambers and the Legal 500. This is the largest agriculture team in the Country with over twenty lawyers serving estates, farms, rural businesses, and public sector clients across England and Wales.

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.

As a Firm we are committed to supporting our people across all levels to achieve the balance they need. We are open to talking about flexible working and 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 will thrive in our culture. The role could be based from our Exeter, Bristol or Cheltenham offices and would ideally be offered on a part-time basis (circa 2 days per week). The ideal candidate will have:

• Extensive drafting skills and 5+ years PQE as a lawyer within the Agriculture sector at a top 100 firm. May or may not have worked as a PSL in another firm.
• The candidate should be able to demonstrate the skills required for the role and a clear affinity with knowledge management and learning and development.
• Excellent legal research skills with experience of legal databases (LexisLibrary, Practical Law, Westlaw).
• Strong technical knowledge of Microsoft products (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint etc.) and using data management systems.

Other skills required include:

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work within a team and to effectively communicate with all levels across the Firm.
• Excellent drafting and technical skills.
• Good presentation skills.
• Must be articulate in a clear and concise manner, using appropriate grammar, style and language for the recipient.
• Must be self-motivated, flexible and successfully adapting to changing demands and conditions.
• Meet scheduled deadlines.
• Commercially aware and client focused.

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 here or if you would like to talk to someone about the role, please call Lisa Gater, Recruitment Business Partner, on 07355 677986.

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.