Head of Legal - Leasehold Extensions / Enfranchisement
- Employer
- QED Legal
- Location
- England, Essex
- Salary
- £70000 - £100000 per annum + Additional benefits
- Closing date
- 21 Jun 2019
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- Vacancy Type
- Solicitors, In-House, Barristers, In-House
- Experience Level
- Partner, Management/Head of Department, Senior Level
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Practice Areas
- Real Estate, Residential Property (incl plot sales)
- PQE
- 7+ Years, Partner
Job Details
Our client is looking for a Head of Legal to manage a team of legal professionals dealing with residential Landlord and Tenant matters including London Lease Extensions & Collective Enfranchisement. You will be a solutions-based lawyer with a business and commercial focused outlook and strong communication skills. This is a varied and interesting role in a busy fast-moving organisation.
The ideal candidate will:
- Have a background dealing with Residential and Commercial Property transactions
- Have a specialism in dealing with Residential Landlord and Tenant matters including London Lease Extensions & Collective Enfranchisement
- Have management or supervisory experience and be able to lead a busy team overseeing a large property portfolio
- Handle your own case load of property Landlord & Tenant matters
- Be an entrepreneurial, solutions focused, facilitator who is professional with good attention to detail
- Deal with the wider business on a range of other legal matters
- Have the capability to communicate well with different personalities and various internal stakeholders and Directors of the business
- Be the first point of contact and manage external counsel relationships
This is a great opportunity to work with a highly regarded legal team dealing with interesting and complex work. The role offers the potential to progress and develop your career.
Our client envisages that candidates with at least 8 years PQE will have the relevant skills / knowledge for this position, however this has been given as an approximate guide for applicants and our client is happy to consider the applications of candidates who fall outside of this PQE range but who have the relevant experience.
For more information on this great in-house opportunity please contact Simon Campbell at QED Legal. If this position isn't for you but you know someone who could be suitable then please let us know. We offer a reward fee for any successful referrals. For full details please see our website.
Company
As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
• Partner moves – both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on’s
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions – placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves – focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves – lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals – FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA – regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers
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