Residential Property Solicitor / Legal Executive

Slade Legal; England; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established legal practice in the UK is seeking a Residential Property Solicitor or Legal Executive with 5+ years PQE. You will provide professional services in residential property, work closely with a collaborative team, and enjoy a comfortable work-life balance. The role emphasizes client satisfaction and compliance while offering a competitive salary and benefits package including holiday pay and a pension scheme.

Benefits

25 days holiday + bank holidays

4% employer pension contributions

Cycle to work scheme

Discount on legal and estate agency fees

Additional day off for your birthday

Qualifications

• 5+ years PQE in residential property.
• Professional and diligent work approach.
• Experience in busy high street practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional residential property services.
• Assist with all aspects of residential property work.
• Work closely with Head of Residential Property and Marketing Manager.

Skills

Residential property expertise

Client satisfaction focus

Case management experience

Compliance with internal procedures

Commercially driven

Education

Solicitor or Legal Executive qualification

Job description

Overview

We are looking for a Residential Property Solicitor / Legal Executive with 5 years+ PQE but would consider less for a candidate with relevant experience.

Benefits

Salary from 45k, dependant on experience

4% employer pension contributions based on qualifying earnings / 5% employee contributions based on qualifying earnings

Company sick pay scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Discount on legal and estate agency fees

25 days holiday + usual bank holidays

Additional day off for your birthday

Slade Legal

We are a highly regarded, well established high street legal practice based in Oxfordshire. We are a multi-disciplinary firm with a thriving Residential Property department providing a broad range of services. Our Residential Property department has teams at Abingdon (Head Office), Didcot and Wallingford. Our completions team are centrally based at Abingdon and manage files from exchange through to archive. We offer a friendly, hard working environment and pride ourselves on recognising and rewarding good performance. We have a very loyal client following who appreciate our efforts to develop and sustain close working relationships and we encourage face to face meetings. We don’t pay referral fees, relying instead on our team to generate positive client feedback and repeat business.

The Role

We currently have an exciting opening for a talented fee earner to join our Residential Property team. They will be expected to provide professional residential property services and assist with all aspects of such work with the benefit of excellent in-house support and a collaborative team mentality.

The role reports to the Head of Department based in Wallingford. Once familiar with our internal systems and procedures, the successful candidate will be encouraged to work with relative autonomy.

We value our staff and offer a comfortable, sustainable work environment and this role will suit an experienced residential solicitor or an existing legal executive looking to move to a firm where work life balance is a priority.

Fee targets and related bonus scheme apply.

The candidate

• Ideally a Solicitor or Legal Executive with 5+ years PQE who is able to demonstrate detailed knowledge and technical expertise in dealing with a broad spectrum of residential property work within busy high street practices.
• Applicants will have a professional and diligent approach to their work with client satisfaction at the forefront.
• They will have recent case management experience and have a strong compliance ethic for internal procedures.
• You will be commercially driven and help develop the professional profile of the office by implementing agreed initiatives and creating strong links within the local business community to acquire new work whilst growing the client base.
• You will work closely with the Head of Residential Property and the Marketing Manager to achieve this.
• Applicants must be self-motivated, reliable and demonstrate a professional and conscientious approach to their work.
• All applications to: [e-mail]