About the role and team
Are you a passionate Housing Litigation Solicitor, Associate, Barrister, or Chartered Legal Executive Advocate looking to take the next step in your career?
Our Birmingham office based team is expanding, and we’re looking for a skilled legal professional to join our dynamic and supportive team.
At Anthony Collins Solicitors, we’re proud to advise and represent housing associations, local authorities, charitable landlords, and housing co-operatives across England. You’ll play a key role in delivering expert legal advice and advocacy that makes a real difference to the communities we serve.
Within this role you will manage a varied and rewarding caseload, including:
* Securing anti-social behaviour injunctions and dealing with breaches
* Handling ASB and other possession claims, including Equality Act and mental capacity defences
* Defending disrepair claims
* Applying for access injunctions
* Providing advice on housing litigation related issues
Your Team:
You will join our 17-strong Housing Litigation team of fee earners working across our Birmingham and Manchester offices. We pride ourselves on being supportive, approachable, and highly skilled.
Why Us?
* Hybrid working: Split your time between remote working (three days) and our newly refurbished Birmingham office with a cafe and free gym (two days) (flexibility required for court hearings)
* Court experience: Regular advocacy opportunities to develop and maintain your skills
* Comprehensive support: Full IT, secretarial, and PA support to enable you to focus on your legal work
* Professional development: Access to leading technical training and a clear progression path within the firm and across sector teams
* Improve lives, communities and society together
About the candidate
For this role the candidate we desire the following experience:
* Experience in housing litigation
* Confident in advocacy, and enthusiastic about representing clients at hearings
* A collaborative team player with effective delegation skills and a supportive approach
* Highly organised and proactive, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines with ease
* An excellent communicator, committed to delivering clear, practical, plain english and commercially sound legal advice
What's in it for you?
* Hybrid working.
* 25 days holiday, 2 gift days at Christmas.
* The opportunity to give back and have 3 days available for social purpose volunteering
* All IT equipment and support for effective home working
* An excellent technical training programme and opportunities to grow sector expertise
About the firm
Anthony Collins Solicitors is a specialist law firm with a clear purpose – to “improve lives, communities and society". For over 50 years we’ve been successfully combining market-leading legal expertise with a commitment to excellence and long-term relationships underpinned by a strong set of values.
What makes Anthony Collins Solicitors distinctive, beyond simply being a sector-specialist law firm, is our people and the values we share. We’re extremely proud of the calibre of people that we attract; people who are inspired by our values, motivated by our vision and work with our clients to positively influence the society and communities we are building together.
Anthony Collins Solicitors is a committed Equal Opportunities employer promoting equality of opportunity. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.