Construction Senior Associate

The Ortus Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading law firm in the City of London seeks a skilled construction lawyer to manage contentious matters and offer legal and commercial advice to clients involved in construction disputes. Leveraging your extensive experience, you will drive innovative solutions, liaise with Counsel, and work closely with clients while supervising junior team members. This role offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic team and contributes to the firm's established reputation within the construction industry.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with dispute advisory and litigation.
• Ability to manage a broad range of complex legal issues.
• Willingness to participate in business development.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload including mediation and arbitration.
• Provide legal and commercial advice to clients.
• Liaise with Counsel and clients, attending meetings.

Skills

Contentious construction work

Exceptional client relationship skills

Commercial problem solving

Strong drafting skills

Outstanding communication skills

Organizational abilities

Job description

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload of contentious matters and dispute advisory work including ADR, mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation.
• Provide legal and commercial advice to clients involved in construction disputes, working with other Team members to assess risks and provide innovative solutions to clients.
• Instruct and liaise with Counsel and experts.
• Draft relevant documents, letters and correspondence tailored to the client's individual needs and requirements.
• Correspond with clients, Counsel, experts and opposing solicitors, attend meetings and negotiate with opposing parties.
• Proactively seek business development opportunities and build relationships with clients and potential clients.
• Undertake administrative tasks such as completing timesheets and finalising bills for client work in a timely manner, and within Firm guidelines.
• Keep up to date with changes and developments in the law by reading journals and law reports.

Qualifications

• Undertake a range of continuing professional development (CPD) to ensure continuous learning and up to date knowledge.
• Extensive experience of contentious construction work including dispute advisory, ADR, mediation, adjudication, arbitration and litigation dealing with a wide range of claims including final account and delay claims, quality of build claims, building safety claims and professional negligence claims.
• Experience with building safety claims in the FTT including remediation orders and remediation contribution orders.
• Exceptional client relationship skills.
• Commercial approach to problem solving to provide innovative solutions for clients.
• Ability to deal with complex technical legal concepts.
• Strong drafting skills, with outstanding attention to detail.
• Outstanding communication skills and organisational abilities.
• Ability to manage a plethora of matters concurrently and prioritise a busy workload.
• Willingness to actively participate in business development.
• Ability to supervise, mentor and develop junior Team Members.
• Proven resilience.
• Positive can-do and pragmatic approach.
• Able to work as an integral part of the Construction Team and the Firm in general.

For an ambitious construction lawyer this is an opportunity to leverage your experience to date in a growing firm with incredibly high quality work. Please get in touch to find out more.

Ortus Group is working with a growing leading London city law firm based in luxury offices in the City of London. The business provide a comprehensive legal service to a wide range of businesses and private individuals. The client base includes multinationals, public and private companies, partnerships, public sector organisations and private clients. The firm is ranked in the Legal 500 rankings for over 20 different areas of Law which highlights the quality of lawyer and clients across each practice area. The Construction team sits as a specialist unit within the firm's incredibly well regarded Real Estate Services department, the construction team works for a wide range of clients including nationally known housebuilders, developers, industrial and commercial clients, entrepreneurs, HNW individuals, construction professionals, main contractors, and sub-contractors. Real Estate is one of the firm's core practice areas. The candidate will actively assist in developing the practice by working on their own files, and with others on larger transactions. In accordance with the general practice of the firm, the candidate will have responsibility and client contact, and will enjoy the support and encouragement of other members of the team at all levels.