Senior Fee Earner (Development)
Harrison-Drury is a market leading Firm of solicitors with offices across the North West servicing both business and private clients. We have been successful for a fourth time placing in the Top 100 Best Mid-Size Companies to work for in the UK.
We are an employer of choice because we have a culture that challenges the conventional law firm approach and focusses our energy on getting great results for our clients, while attracting and developing brilliant people.
The Property Development team are now looking to grow their busy team with the addition of a qualified senior lawyer with proven commercial property/development experience. Candidates must also be able to demonstrate previous experience of delivering excellent client service as well as being able to lead and manage others. The successful candidate will contribute to the strategic direction of the firm through people and financial management and business development activities. The role involves operating a Case Management System, so good IT skills are essential. We are looking for a candidate who is a strong communicator, with keen attention to detail and who is confident working and supporting and leading others within a challenging commercial environment.
The role:
The team currently advises investors, lenders, commercial and residential developers and high profile entrepreneurs and estate owners across a range of sectors with the common theme that we provide extremely proactive and highly commercial advice. We are looking for a senior lawyer to take a lead in the growth of our Property Development team. The role involves an exciting variety of work including residential and commercial development and high level transactional work for high profile regional and national clients and an opportunity to contribute to the strategic growth of the firm. The ideal candidate will have an established network in the sector and experience of providing commercial advice on sales, purchases, leasing, mortgaging of property and all aspects of the development process, as well as managing team members and business development activities.
Typical duties will be:
- Financial management of own matters and team members’ matters
- Provision of excellent client service
- To develop relationships with clients and colleagues in other departments.
- To provide support and supervision and development to other team members and be senior figure in their development
- Effective liaison with other service line teams A close working relationship with the Construction advisors, Plot Sales team and Property Litigators will form a key part of the role.
- To contribute to business planning and the strategic direction of the Property Development team and the firm as a whole.
- Negotiating and drafting transactional paperwork, production of advice and guidance to clients
- Development of clients both within own team and referring work internally to other service lines
Skills and experience
- Proven experience within a property department advising and representing clients on a range of real estate matters with an emphasis on property development – commercial and residential – from site acquisition, development enabling matters such as statutory agreements and service infrastructure, sale/lease set up as well as secured lending in that respect
- A track record of developing work and teams
- Strong attention to detail
- Good organisation and planning skills with the ability to prioritise work to meet strict timescales where required
- Technical proficiency
- Excellent IT skills
- Excellent client facing skills
- Accomplished in business development activities, with the ability to build a network of contacts for themselves and the team
- Strong self-motivated team worker
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