Associate Solicitor - Housing Litigation

Judge & Priestley LLP; Bromley; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Solicitor Bonus: Up to 10%

Profit Share Scheme

Private Healthcare

Medicash

Pension (auto enrolment)

Annual leave 25–30 days

Long Service Awards

Birthday off

Maternity/Paternity/Adoption Leave

Death in Service Insurance

Volunteer Sabbatical

Worklife Central

Legal Fees contribution

Referral bonus up to £2,000

Season Ticket Loan

Cycle to Work Scheme

Job summary

Judge & Priestley LLP in Bromley seeks a robust housing litigator to join our team of solicitors and paralegals. You will manage a busy caseload across disrepair, possession, and injunction matters, while delivering excellent client service and supervising support staff.

Ideal candidates have strong experience in housing matters, including landlord/tenant and AST/leasehold issues, and a proactive approach to networking and time-billing targets.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in housing litigation within a solicitor’s firm or in-house.
• Experience handling a busy caseload including disrepair, possession and injunctions.
• Knowledge of landlord/tenant matters, ASTs and leasehold issues desirable.
• Proven client care in private practice and ability to meet targets.
• Experience in marketing, networking and supervising staff noted.

Responsibilities

• Manage a busy caseload of housing litigation matters.
• Defend disrepair claims, possession, civil injunctions and EPA/ASB/fraud.
• Handle landlord and tenant matters including AST/leasehold issues.
• Maintain excellent client care and professional standards.
• Participate in firm marketing and networking activities.
• Supervise secretarial and junior staff; work with support teams.
• Meet monthly time recording and billing targets.

Skills

Housing litigation

Disrepair

Possession

Civil injunctions

EPA claims

ASB

Fraud

Landlord & tenant

Client care

Team leadership

Job description

Department: Housing

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Bromley

Description

We are seeking a robust housing litigator to join our fantastic team of solicitors and paralegals. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious solicitor with excellent communication and client care skills. We want someone with a strong attention to detail and someone who is able to work both independently and as part of a team. You are expected to have a flexible attitude to work and time.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Strong experience in a housing management legal department in a solicitor’s firm or in-house.
• Dealing with a busy caseload of housing litigation matters to include defending disrepair claims, possession, civil injunctions, defending EPA claims, ASB and fraud.
• Experience of dealing with landlord and tenant matters, AST and/or leasehold matters to include forfeiture claims is desirable.
• Experience of delivering excellent client care preferably in private practice.
• Participation in marketing and networking activities whether on a firm-wide, or departmental basis.
• A consistent track record of meeting monthly time recording and billing targets.
• Familiarity and experience of working on a case management system.
• Managing any support services for which you are responsible, including supervision of secretarial and junior staff.

Benefits

• Solicitor Bonus: Up to 10% Solicitor Bonus
• Profit Share Scheme: We want all our employees to have a share in the success of the firm. This non contractual bonus is paid in June based on the profit from the previous financial year.
• Private Healthcare: You’ll have access to private medical insurance.
• Medicash: You will be enrolled into our scheme which provides cashback on a range of health services.
• Pension: All employees are entitled to join our auto enrolment pension scheme. You will be enrolled in the pension after 3 months of employment dependent on age and salary.
• Generous & Flexible Annual leave: We have a minimum of 25 days across the firm and you will receive an additional day’s holiday after every completed year of service to a total maximum of 30 days. You are also able to carry over up to 5 days of unused holiday entitlement.
• Long Service Awards: We recognise long service through special lunches, extra time off and a monetary reward.
• Birthday off: If your birthday falls on a working day, you can have that day off as an extra day’s leave.
• Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave: We include family friendly policies when after two years’ service you will be eligible for our enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
• Death in Service Insurance: All employees will be entitled to 2 x salary.
• Volunteer Sabbatical: We offer our employees up to 2 days paid leave a year to contribute towards our CSR efforts.
• Worklife Central: This multi-format programme covers four main topic areas: Careers, Families, Wellbeing and Inclusion. Support and resources are available through a wide range of online live talks, support groups and workshops, long and short-form videos accessible on demand and a library of articles, blogs and podcasts.
• Legal Fees: After one years’ service, you will be entitled to a contribution towards legal fees.
• Recruitment Incentive: We offer up to £2,000 (dependent on level of seniority) referral bonus to say thank you for introducing a job candidate that becomes employed by J&P and passes their probation.
• Season Ticket Loan: After probation, you are entitled to apply for an interest free advance for a season ticket to use public transport to reach your place of work.
• Cycle to Work Scheme: Allows you to make a saving of 25% - 39% on the retail price of a bike.