Property Litigation lawyer NQ – 3 years’ PQE LEEDS

Farrar Levin Legal Recruitment; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent legal recruitment firm in Leeds is seeking a Property Litigation lawyer with 0 to 3 years’ PQE. The successful candidate will be part of a busy real estate team, focusing on telecoms litigation among other aspects of property law. This role involves tasks such as serving statutory notices, handling lease disputes, and managing tenant insolvency cases. Ideal candidates will have relevant experience or a strong background in commercial litigation and have completed a Property-related seat during their training. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in an esteemed law firm.

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial landlord and tenant disputes preferred.
• Strong background in commercial and civil litigation considered.
• Ideally have completed a Property-related seat during training.

Responsibilities

• Serve statutory notices and advise on their validity.
• Handle contentious lease renewals and termination notices.
• Interpret and enforce lease obligations.
• Manage arrears recovery and tenant insolvency.
• Obtain possession of commercial premises.
• Deal with service charge disputes.
• Act in dilapidations matters including advisory work.

Skills

Commercial landlord and tenant disputes

Civil litigation

Real estate litigation

Education

Qualified lawyer (0-3 years PQE)

Job description

Commercial law firm in Leeds is looking to recruit a Property Litigation lawyer of 0 to 3 years’ PQE. The team covers every aspect of contentious and transactional commercial real estate work, including in particular telecoms, development, investment, asset management, construction and landlord/tenant work. Clients include telecoms operators, property management and development companies, house builders, health trusts and government bodies (local and central), owner-occupiers and institutions, both in the UK and overseas. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to join our client’s busy real estate team based in Leeds to be primarily focused on telecoms, with an opportunity to work with real estate colleagues across the UK on nationwide projects.The work expected of the role will largely be geared towards real estate telecoms litigation work, handling and assisting with the following: • Serving statutory notices and advising on their validity and conditionality • Dealing with contentious lease renewals, termination notices and proceedings • Interpreting and enforcing lease obligations • Arrears recovery and tenant insolvency • Obtaining possession of commercial premises • Dealing with service charge disputes • Acting in dilapidations matters including service of notices and advisory work.

For qualified applicants, experience in commercial landlord and tenant disputes is preferable but not essential. Also, qualified candidates with a strong background in commercial and civil litigation (but looking to move into property litigation) will be given serious consideration. Newly-qualified candidates will ideally have undertaken a Property-related seat during their training.