Solicitor

About your new role

Our Property Litigation team acts for public and private sector landlords, tenants and real estate developers, and our client base includes local authorities, NHS Trusts, housing associations, social landlords, blue chip retailers and owner managed businesses. We use bespoke case management systems to ensure that all documents are accurate and consistent, court procedures are followed and deadlines met.

As a Property Litigation Solicitor you will be joining a strong, fast-growing, national property litigation team, currently operating out of five offices: Birmingham, Leeds, London, Liverpool, and Manchester. The team has more than doubled in size over the last five years and is expected to continue to expand.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Manage own caseload of mixed property litigation work, which, currently, will predominantly be defendant housing disrepair work
• Caseload may include commercial cases such as estate management work, possession actions, business lease renewals, injunctions etc
• Caseload may also include residential cases such as possessions, rent recovery, disrepair etc. for both housing association and other residential landlords

About You

You will have previous experience and a genuine and demonstrable interest in the above area of work.

We also require you to have/be

• Knowledge of property litigation work
• Locations - Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool or Manchester
• NQ -3 year PQE
• Have a flexible approach
• Be motivated and highly-driven
• Have excellent IT and typing skills
• Have excellent communication skills
• To have excellent time management and organisation skills
• Have the ability to multi-task and prioritise
• Be able to work to strict deadlines and targets
• Have the ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative