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Job Title: Solicitor 2 – 10 PQE
Hours: Full Time, permanent
Location: Bath, hybrid.
Job Reference: CWS446
OVERVIEW
Top Ranked Legal 500 firm.
This opportunity is ideal for a solicitor with a genuine interest in rural affairs and experience in agricultural or rural property law. You’ll join a specialist team advising a diverse range of clients including farmers, landowners, estates, and agribusinesses.
RESPONSIBILITIES
* Manage your own caseload of agricultural and commercial property matters from start to finish, including sales, purchases, lettings, and licences involving farmland, rural buildings, and estates.
* Advise on land development and diversification projects, such as promotion and option agreements, and renewable energy schemes.
* Draft and negotiate a range of agricultural property agreements, with support from paralegals and collaboration across the team.
* Provide legal input on estate management, including succession planning, AHA and FBT tenancies, and rights of way.
* Work closely with colleagues in other departments to advise clients on regulatory, commercial, and compliance issues affecting rural businesses.
* Build and maintain strong, long-term client relationships with landowners, farmers, and estate managers.
* Stay informed on legal and policy developments in agricultural, land use, and environmental law
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
* Qualified solicitor (England & Wales), ideally with 2+ years’ PQE agricultural/ rural property land law
* Strong technical knowledge of rural property matters
* Excellent client-facing and communication skills
* A genuine interest in countryside affairs and rural communities
* Experience working with farming businesses, estates, or landowners is highly desirable
BENEFITS – one of the best on the market
* Up to 27 days holiday + bank + option to buy and sell + special occasion leave (birthday/wedding etc)
* Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.
* Enhanced employer pension contribution
* Life assurance
* Private medical and dental insurance + Healthcare cashplan + income protection
* Various other perks and discounts including legal services, gym discounts, shops, season tickets etc.
* Many more.
For more details please contact: cait.woodrow-smith @ Simpsonjudge.co.uk
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Legal
* Industries
Legal Services
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