Senior Associate

**About The Role**

**Based in our Cambridge office you will be working in the Dispute Resolution Team within our Real Estate Disputes team.
Real estate issues arising from:

- Land sale and purchase transactions
- Development agreements
- Option and overage provisions
- Rights of light
- Restrictive covenants
- Nuisance
- Boundary disputes
- Trespassers
- Telecoms masts
- Wayleaves
- Providing strategic advice to obtain vacant possession of development sites.

Landlord and tenant issues, acting for either landlords or tenants, arising from:

- Commercial and residential lease renewals
- Rent reviews
- Lease assignment and subletting breaches of lease covenants
- Unlawful use and alteration
- Recovering possession
- Effective exercise of lease break rights
- Mixed use schemes including statutory right of pre-emption
- Statutory lease extensions and enfranchisement.

**_You will be responsible for: _**
- Taking instructions and liaising with clients
- Responsibility for own case load
- Supporting and supervising other fee earners on a variety of cases
- Managing financial outputs and billing responsibilities
- Developing and maintaining a knowledge on legal issues, working collaboratively with colleagues across the team to share knowledge.
- Ensure all work complies with risk management policies and procedures, in line with Data Protection regulations.
- Support wider marketing and business development opportunities.

**About You**

**- Extensive experience as a litigator and advisor, potentially with your own following or referral network
- Exposure to the County Court, the Lands Tribunal and the First Tier Tribunal
- Able to work collaboratively with colleagues and successfully manage client relationships
- Experience with supervision of trainees and junior team members
- Keen to assist with business development and marketing opportunities.
- Demonstrate teamwork and relationship building skills
- Strong commercial acumen
- Ambitious and organised with a keen eye for detail
- Ability to use own initiative to manage own caseload of files
- Confident, pro-active manner

**About Us**

**Benefits of working with us**:

- Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
- Support staff bonus scheme
- 27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
- Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Life Assurance
- 1/3 gym membership contribution
- Flu vaccinations

**What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?**

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 70, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service, we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With eleven offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons has led to the addition of two new office locations (Northampton and Milton Keynes), and even further growth in London and Cambridge.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

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