Senior Residential Development Lawyer

Womble Bond Dickinson; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent national law firm seeks an experienced Senior Lawyer to join their Residential team in Leeds. This role focuses on high-profile residential development projects, requiring extensive legal expertise and strong client relationship management. The firm promotes an open culture emphasizing well-being, flexibility, and diversity, welcoming applicants from all backgrounds.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Health and well-being resources

Qualifications

• 8+ years' post-admission experience required.
• Experience managing existing client relationships.
• High knowledge of the UK living sector is crucial.

Responsibilities

• Manage high-value development contracts and agreements.
• Work on residential and residential-led mixed-use developments.
• Join a large, national team to support major clients in the Living Sector.

Skills

Client Relationship Management

Development Law Knowledge

Education

Legal Qualification

Job description

Our Residential team is one of the largest of its kind. We support our clients on a range of projects across the Living Sector. We act for PLC; regional; and SME house builders; registered providers of affordable housing; land promoters; and PRS investors & developers in respect of residential and residential-led mixed-use developments.

Our expertise in the Living Sector, coupled with our approach to client service, means that we are rated as the premier team by both clients and the legal directories.

We now have new opportunities available for Senior Lawyers to join the team. If your expertise lies in house-building; build to rent; strategic land or affordable housing, we'd be very interested in hearing from you. We also have various locations you could be based from, on a hybrid basis, including Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Newcastle, or Southampton.

What will you be doing?

Within this sector, we are seeing significant growth. We have an impressive list of major clients and panel appointments. You'll be joining a national high-profile team with the best exposure to high-value development work available. This includes conditional and unconditional contracts/transfers, option agreements, promotion agreements, development funding agreements, forward commitment/turnkey contracts, and collaboration agreements with a focus on high-value residential development and investment projects.

What does the ideal candidate look like?

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a talented and enthusiastic residential team who will be as invested in your career development as you are.

To be successful in this role, you'll need as a minimum:

• A legal qualification with 8+ years' post-admission experience.
• Experience of managing existing client relationships.
• Evidence of managing people and delivering results.
• A high level of knowledge of the UK living sector.

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasizing that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing, and we're very happy to talk about flexible working, full-time or part-time patterns.

Through our DEI initiatives, we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (currently supporting networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage; LGBTQ+; disabilities; families; and women's career development). We are in constant dialogue with our people about how to expand our networks to better support everyone. Find out more about EDI at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities, and sexual orientations.

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