Senior Practice Development Lawyer

Dentons Students Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global law firm in the UK is seeking a Professional Development Lawyer (PDL) to join its Real Estate team. The role involves updating and automating the precedent bank and providing support in legal know-how services. Ideal candidates will have substantial knowledge of the Real Estate sector, strong drafting skills, and experience in document automation with Contract Express. This is a hybrid role offering significant responsibility and interaction with fee earners.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in creating and maintaining legal precedents.
• Ability to understand practical implications of legal changes.
• Maintains up to date knowledge of industry and legal standards.
• Proactive in proposing solutions to clients.

Responsibilities

• Revise and automate the English/Welsh real estate precedent bank.
• Draft practice notes and liaise with fee earners for precedent support.
• Participate in innovation projects to enhance legal documentation.

Skills

Substantial knowledge of the Real Estate sector and market

Comprehensive drafting skills

Experience of document automation using Contract Express

Excellent intellectual and analytical skills

Outstanding communication abilities

Key research abilities

Tools

Contract Express

Job description

Department / Division: Real Estate

Duration: Permanent

Location: London / Milton Keynes / Virtual

Reports to: Managing Practice Development Lawyer

Direct Reports: None

Type of Role: Hybrid

Requisition No: 8706

The Department

We are the largest real estate practice in the world with a solid market leading reputation across a broad spectrum of industries and sectors. Real Estate is a core and expanding part of our business and a key element across the Firm and its different geographies.

Our London office offers a complete range of real estate services to clients from development joint ventures structured investments acquisitions and disposals landlord and tenant retail and real estate finance to planning and property litigation. It works seamlessly with our Milton Keynes Scottish and virtual Real Estate practices across many of these areas which enables us to offer cost effective solutions to our clients.

The Role

We now have an opportunity for a PDL to join us to work within the heart of our Real Estate team. The focus of the role will be on updating maintaining and automating our precedent bank to ensure the department remains at forefront of legal addition you will be working closely with our existing Managing PDL to support and deliver a broad spectrum of know-how related services.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a market leading Real Estate team where you will be offered a high level of responsibility across the breadth of the practice and the opportunity to have significant interaction with our fee earners.

Responsibilities

• Revising, updating, maintaining and automating the English / Welsh real estate precedent bank.
• Creating new precedents.
• Drafting practice notes to support the use of the precedent bank.
• Liaising closely with fee earners to understand and respond to their requirements for precedent support.
• Working closely with fee earners to gather market feedback and to maintain a good understanding of the market norm.
• Dealing with fee earner technical legal queries.
• Participating in and contributing to innovation projects to enhance the use and delivery of legal documentation.
• Where required, providing assistance and support to the Managing PDL with the following:
  • Legal research;
  • Producing dynamic and up to date client briefings and legal updates;
  • Identifying developing, coordinating and delivering legal training for clients and internal fee earning teams;
  • Creating and contributing to legal know-how material;
  • Sourcing and sharing relevant and up to date knowledge with clients and our internal team and encouraging others to do the same.

Required Experience, Skills and Attributes

• Substantial knowledge of the Real Estate sector and market.
• Comprehensive drafting skills and experience of creating and maintaining precedents.
• Experience of document automation particularly using Contract Express.
• Understands the likely practical implications of legal changes.
• Maintains up to date industry and legal knowledge.
• Is pro‑active in proposing solutions to internal and external clients.
• Excellent intellectual and analytical skills.
• Outgoing in approach and ability to communicate clearly.
• Key research abilities.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.

Firm Profile

Across more than 80 countries Dentons helps you grow protect operate and finance your organisation by providing uniquely global and deeply local legal solutions. Polycentric purpose‑driven and committed to inclusion diversity equity and sustainability we focus on what matters most to you.

Inclusion and Diversity

We are committed to building an inclusive culture here at Dentons where our people can thrive regardless of their background or circumstance. As well as being the right thing to do it makes good business sense too. A richness of backgrounds experiences and perspectives helps us best serve our clients and the communities in which we operate. You can find out more about inclusion and diversity at Dentons here : Inclusion and Diversity .

Equal Opportunities

Dentons is committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We welcome applications from everyone including of any age ethnicity religion sex sexual orientation gender identity nationality neurodiversity disability or with parental or caring responsibilities. We also offer flexible working hours.

During the application process all applicants have the opportunity to tell us about any adjustments or support they require so they are able to perform at their best. Any information you share with us during the application process is treated in confidence.

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

If you are interested in applying for this position we welcome direct applications via our careers page but if you have any questions beforehand please email . Enquiries only please applications will not be accepted via email.

Please note that we will not accept unsolicited CVs sent to the business nor will we accept any associated terms of business.

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