Your Role
and What You'll Be Doing
We’re looking for a talented Residential Property Practice Development Lawyer (PDL) to support our Residential Property team. This is a pivotal role focused on knowledge management, training delivery, innovation, contributing to business development activity and providing expert support to fee-earners across all our offices. Depending on your experience, we’re open to appointing at Practice Development Lawyer or Senior Practice Development Lawyer level.
Our Residential Property team of highly experienced property lawyers deal with all aspects of residential conveyancing which includes sales, purchases, remortgages, transfer of equity and equity release, company buy-to-let, shared ownership, lease enfranchisement, lease extensions and complex title transactions for clients nationally. The team provide continuous, quality legal advice and an exceptional conveyancing service to our clients.
In this role, you’ll work alongside our highly collaborative wider Practice Development team of 16 PDLs to:
1. Drive Practice Development initiatives, ensuring our colleagues in the Residential Property team have access to accurate, up-to-date legal resources and guidance to support day-to-day work, strengthen client relationships, and contribute to business development.
2. Play an active part in firm-wide knowledge projects, representing the Residential Property practice, shaping processes and services, and helping implement our Practice Development strategy.
3. Deliver training and innovation that empowers our lawyers and enhances client service, including helping embed our AI tools into our ways of working.
4. Horizon-scan legal and market developments, as well as new innovations, helping our fee earners to stay on top of legal change, reduce risk, and work efficiently.
5. Support with legal content creation and awards submissions.
We offer flexibility on location, with travel to our offices as needed. Full-time is preferred, but we welcome part-time applications.
About You
6. An experienced PDL or a fee-earner seeking a first move into a PDL role
7. Have a strong background in Residential Property Law
8. Knowledge of Islamic Finance and Secured Lending would be beneficial, although not essential
9. Proactive in handling technical, legal queries
10. Have a keen interest in knowledge management, technology, and innovation, including AI
11. Experienced in arranging and delivering technical training and helping to draft articles and communications to be shared with clients and the wider market
12. Proven experience in effectively communicating and collaborating with a diverse range of people and job functions
13. Excellent verbal, written and listening skills and the ability to articulate positions/opinions clearly, effectively and objectively
Given the nature of the role, it’s essential that you hold a current practising certificate.
Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You
14. 25+ days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can ‘buy’ up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
15. Generous and flexible pension schemes.
16. Volunteering days – Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
17. Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you’re fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We’re committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It’s made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.