Job Description
We are hiring
Our Planning team is currently recruiting for a Associate to join the firm. Based out of one of our regional offices, this role will play a key part in supporting Local Government and private sector clients on a diverse range of planning law matters. If successful you will be joining a team of specialist planning law solicitors, providing our clients with the focus, strategy, organisation and attention to detail needed to operate effectively in the planning system. This includes and is not limited to working on large projects, such as regeneration and urban extensions, (both for public and private sector bodies).
We are looking for someone dedicated to making the complex simple and finding creative solutions. We want to help our clients tackle the legal hurdles associated with large projects in order to promote bold and place-creating schemes so having someone who is ambitious, has excellent stakeholder and client communication and superb attention to detail with a commercial
focus to their approach is a necessity.
If you are successful in securing the role, you will be involved in:
* Drafting of transactional documentation; such as s106 agreements, planning reports and court documents
* Litigation, including drafting and consideration of pre-action correspondence and pleadings, liaison with Court staff and preparation of trial bundles
* Ability to monitor critical dates and ensure compliance
* Ability to master an understanding of systems and procedures with attention to detail and ability to advise clients on those procedures
* Ability to think laterally and to consolidate and build on a wide range of disciplines
So, if you are a Planning specialist, looking for that next opportunity to make a difference and support out clients, please apply via the website or reach out to Jonah Philpott (Recruitment Advisor) or another member of the recruitment team who would be happy to talk you through the role.