THE ROLE
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Residential Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive at Associate level to join our team in our Marks Tey office.
This role is both a unique and interesting vacancy to work alongside the Residential Property Partner and create a new Residential Property team within the overall Residential Property Department of the firm from this location.
You will be located within our new Private Client Hub and work alongside with our HNW, Family and Private Client fee earners to build our offering to our new and existing clients in this geographical area.
This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with a broad range of residential property experience and an appetite for business development to build on the existing foundations and reputation of a strongly performing department and help carve out a new team to support its growth further.
You’ll be joining a well-established Residential Property team that handles a broad spectrum of matters and complex title issues. The team works with a diverse client base spanning the full range of residential property types.
Day to day you will be handling a varied caseload that will encompass the full cycle of residential property matters including freehold and lease conveyancing, re-mortgages, lease extensions and transfers of equity, transfers of part, refinancing and small development sales.
This role offers the chance to take on meaningful responsibility, contribute to business development, support, develop and mentor junior team members and demonstrate excellent client care skills, all within a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.
This is an exciting time to join Holmes & Hills. Having invested a significant amount of funding and effort in our growth over the last 5 years, we are now in a strong position to utilise that growth in developing our service offering further and increasing the profitability of the firm. This role has real potential to be part of some exciting times ahead for the Firm!
WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED?
Ideally you will be a qualified solicitor (or Senior Charted Legal Executive) with solid experience (at least 3 years PQE) in residential property law, ideally gained at a reputable regional or national firm. You should be confident managing your own caseload and delivering high-quality service to clients.
Experience in mentoring or supervising junior colleagues would be beneficial, as would a proactive approach to business development and maintaining client relationships.
We are particularly interested in candidates with the following range of expertise:
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Freehold and Leasehold Sales & Purchases;
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Transfers of equity;
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Re-mortgages;
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Equity Release;
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Refinancing;
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Transfers of Parts;
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Drafting of a range of Deeds for the grant and release of easements and covenants etc.
You will have a proven track record in delivering high quality conveyancing work under minimal supervision.
This nature of this new role brings a requirement to demonstrate strong business development and marketing appetite, so the successful candidate must be commercially aware and possess excellent relationship building and communication skills.
The right candidate will have excellent client care skills and be able to take a flexible approach to meeting clients’ expectations of client contact. They must be confident and competent in technical aspects of Residential Property and Land Law and not just the process itself.
WHAT SKILLS SHOULD I HAVE?
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Exceptional communication skills
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Self-motivated and results orientated
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Commercially aware and client focused
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Team player
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Flexible approach to client service
WHAT ARE WE OFFERING?
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A supportive, relaxed and flexible work environment in an experienced and growing team.
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28 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays
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Medicash after 1 years’ service at an enhanced level
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Life Insurance
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EAP and various other physical and mental wellbeing support services including virtual GP access 24/7
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Family friendly policies such as enhanced maternity and paternity pay plus, family events leave
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Company sick pay
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Cycle scheme
At Holmes & Hills we are proud to have a culture of sharing, collaboration and mutual respect. We are genuine, authentic and down to earth. We are passionate about what we do and how we do it and believe our Values demonstrate the quality and commitment we give to our many clients. These values run through the core of our firm and are fundamental to the develop and progression of our 200 highly valued colleagues.
We also offer the opportunity to work for a progressive, modern and inspiring law firm in a regional area that brings with it, the benefit of a good work/life balance, flexibility and family focussed and with genuine opportunity to progress and develop evidenced by our commitment to our Career Pathway and Training Pathway.
Holmes & Hills Solicitors is a large regional firm of solicitors with seven offices across Essex and Suffolk and over 200 legal professionals across a number of specialist departments. Holmes & Hills works in partnership with clients across East Anglia, including businesses, individuals, families and local authorities, to build long standing relationships, protect clients' interests and support clients' growth and development.
Holmes & Hills' large team of legal experts work in partnership with individuals and organisations to provide them with truly proactive legal services through personal relationships. Acting as a trusted advisor to clients, we take the time to understand clients' needs and objectives before delivering practical advice through a personal and accessible approach.
Holmes & Hills Solicitors is independently recognised by The Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners - two independent directories of the UK’s top law firms - as being a leading supplier of legal services in the region.
These accreditations give our clients the confidence that the legal advice and representation they receive from Holmes & Hills is some of the best available.
Our clients range from established and growing businesses whose brands are recognised and sold around the world and local authorities across the region, through to families and first-time home buyers.
