Conveyancing Lawyer

Amicable; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Insurance

Group Life Assurance

Flexible working schedule

Employee Assistance Programme

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Job summary

amicable is building amicable Legal, a new tech-forward law firm offering regulated legal advice and representation. We seek an experienced Conveyancing Lawyer to run files from day one and help design the service, technology and safeguards that support couples moving on after divorce or separation.

You will handle freehold and leasehold transfer of equity, work closely with the family team, and lead the conveyancing service with minimal supervision in a hybrid role from our London office.

Qualifications

• 8+ years PQE in residential conveyancing with experience after divorce or separation.
• Excellent technical skills and strong knowledge of England and Wales conveyancing.
• Ability to run own files with minimal supervision and communicate directly with clients.

Responsibilities

• Handle freehold and leasehold transfer of equity cases with minimal supervision.
• Lead the conveyancing service and work with the family team and separating couples.
• Design the process, technology and safeguards behind a new conveyancing service.
• Build the service from scratch and shape tools and processes.
• Support clients to move on with care and clarity at every step.

Skills

Residential conveyancing

Client communication

File management

Education

8+ years PQE in residential conveyancing

Job description

amicable has helped tens of thousands of people separate in a kinder, fairer and more affordable way - working with couples rather than taking sides. We're now building amicable Legal, a new tech-forward law firm that will offer regulated legal advice and representation in an innovative way to people for whom the amicable negotiation services are, for whatever reason, not suited.

We are proud to be part of the Octopus Group.

About the role

We're looking for an experienced Conveyancing Solicitor, licenced conveyancer or appropriately qualified CILEX to join us at the beginning and help build amicable Legal.

You’ll be running files from day one, but you’ll also be helping us work out how the firm should operate, what we automate, what we don’t, which processes are genuinely useful and which bits of transferring property after divorce or separation we can do better.

The conveyancing work will be focussed on transfers between couples when they divorce or separate. It sits naturally alongside our family work and helps people move on to the next chapter.

You’ll be key in helping us design how this service runs - the process, the technology and the safeguards behind it. You’ll handle freehold and leasehold transfer of equity cases with minimal supervision, working closely with our family team and, often, with both people in a separating couple.

This is a chance to build a conveyancing service from scratch, do it properly, and do it in a kinder way - with the backing of an established group behind you. You’ll be instrumental in designing the process and the tools, rather than fitting into someone else's.

This role is hybrid working from our London office.

As a Conveyancing Lawyer, you will:

• Handle freehold and leasehold transfer of equity cases with minimal supervision
• Lead our conveyancing service, working closely with the family team and often with both people in a separating couple
• Help design the process, technology and safeguards behind a new conveyancing service
• Build the service from scratch, with the freedom to shape the tools and process rather than inherit someone else’s
• Support people to move on to their next chapter, with care and clarity at every step
• At least 8 years' PQE in residential conveyancing. Experience of working with people following divorce or separation is essential. You need to be comfortable running your own files.
• Excellent technical skills and strong knowledge of residential conveyancing in England and Wales, including the ability to handle freehold and leasehold transfer of equity cases with minimal supervision.
• You run your own files with minimal supervision, you'll be dealing directly with clients. We're a small team, so you need to be equally comfortable getting on with things yourself and working closely with others.
• Good understanding of technology, ideally, you're the person in your current firm who actually works out the case management system or writes the automation everyone else then uses. You're comfortable using AI, but sceptical enough to know when it's producing plausible nonsense.
• A real appetite for running cases differently, you'll be testing and shaping our technology and we expect you to have opinions about it. You'll spot ways to improve how we run files and, sometimes, you'll just go and implement them. If you fundamentally believe the way you've always run a property transfer is the way it should always be done, this probably isn't the job for you.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and a changing job, not every process or system will be in place when you arrive. Often you'll be the person creating it. One day you'll be deep in a transfer; the next you might be testing a tool, rewriting a template or sitting with the product team.
• Salary: Full time: £50,000 - £70,000 per annum depending on skills, experience, qualifications and location
• Private Health Insurance
• Group Life Assurance
• Flexible working schedule - you will have to be available for team meetings each week and to liaise with internal colleagues and service customers during core working hours, otherwise it’s a flexible schedule. We trust you to get the work done.
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme

A note on timing: amicable Legal's application to the Solicitors Regulation Authority has been submitted and is pending acceptance. The firm isn't yet authorised, so this role is offered subject to that authorisation being granted. We're recruiting now so we're ready to go as soon as we can.

We respect and value people’s differences and believe that our teams are at their best when their members feel safe to bring their whole self to work. We are committed to creating an inclusive experience as well as equal opportunities for growth and development for all.