Solicitor (1-5 PQE) - Dispute Resolution (Property and Commercial Litigation)
1 week ago
About Hempsons
With over 250 staff and lawyers working across our five offices nationwide, Hempsons is a leading law firm for the health and social care, life sciences, charity and social enterprise sectors. We help clients overcome a constantly evolving list of challenges
Our aim is to provide outstanding legal services that deliver the best possible client outcomes whilst nurturing a culture that makes us a "great place to work".
The Role and Team
The team is seeking to appoint a Solicitor (1-5 PQE). The candidate will have the opportunity to join an established and ambitious team, receive outstanding support and mentoring and be exposed to interesting and complex work.
We provide dispute resolution services for a broad range of clients primarily in the health, social care, charities and social enterprise sectors.
We are looking for a litigator to join our growing commercial dispute resolution and property litigation team.
We are flexible about the role, depending on the candidate: either focusing on property litigation or doing a mix of property litigation and commercial dispute resolution.
Our commercial dispute resolution and property litigation offering is managed as part of the Corporate Commercial team here at Hempsons Our property litigators work closely with the other litigators in the team, several of whom undertake a mix of commercial dispute resolution and property litigation. Our property litigators work with our real estate teams, across all five offices.
The core property litigation team currently comprises of a Partner and two Associates, with support from a trainee solicitor or solicitor apprentice. The core property litigation team is supported by other members of the commercial dispute resolution team.
The successful candidate can be based at any of our Harrogate, Manchester, Newcastle or Southampton offices. We offer a Hybrid Working environment so the flexibility to work from the office and at home is available.
The candidate will be expected to have a solid grounding in commercial Property Litigation work since qualification and regard it as an area of specialist knowledge. A flavour of some areas in which experience would be an advantage are: service charge disputes; 1954 Act lease renewals; insolvency (in a property context); overage disputes; professional negligence; rent reviews; break options; exit strategies; possession claims; and dilapidations claims.
Skills and Competencies:
You will have:
• Solid grounding in commercial real estate (and commercial litigation depending on the role).
• An aptitude for engaging with our various health and social care clients as well as commercial clients
• A strong teamwork ethos, we all work with colleagues across our five offices
• Excellent organisational skills
• An appreciation of the need to comply with internal and client data security guidelines
Hempsons is an agile firm and is open to discussions over flexible/hybrid working
Hempsons is an equal opportunities employer
Hempsons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all and to encouraging diversity through recruitment. Applications are welcome from all sections of the community and decisions to progress will be made with reference to entirely objective criteria only.
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Manchester, United Kingdom Hempsons Full timeSolicitor (1-5 PQE) – Dispute Resolution (Property and Commercial Litigation) Hempsons – Manchester, England, United Kingdom We are looking for a solicitor with 1–5 years of post-qualification experience to join our growing commercial dispute resolution and property litigation team. The successful candidate can be based at any of our Harrogate,...
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