Real Estate Attorney

Distinct | North America; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Distinct | North America in Dallas is seeking a mid-sized firm attorney with 2-4 years of transactional real estate experience. You will draft and negotiate purchase and sale agreements, leases, amendments, and related documents, while coordinating due diligence and closing steps.

You’ll interact directly with clients, lenders, title companies, brokers, and opposing counsel, supporting senior attorneys and building toward independent management of matters.

Qualifications

• Active bar license in Texas (or UBE transfer underway)
• 2-4 years of transactional real estate experience at a law firm
• Experience across leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions preferred

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate purchase and sale agreements, leases, amendments, and other transaction documents
• Run due diligence on title, survey, and zoning matters
• Prepare and review closing documents and communicate with clients, lenders, title companies, brokers, and opposing counsel

Skills

Transactional real estate

Negotiation

Client communication

Diligence

Drafting & editing

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

MS Office

Lexis/Westlaw

Job description

BigLaw-caliber deals. Boutique-sized team. That's a trade most people never get to make.

This well-regarded mid-sized Dallas firm pulls it off. It handles the same complex, high-value work you'd find at the major downtown towers, corporate acquisitions, dispositions, development deals, financing, and leasing, but inside a firm small enough that you're never just a name.

Retention here isn't a talking point, it's the actual track record. Roughly half of the firm's partners started out as associates, which tells you everything about how seriously it invests in people who stick around and do good work.

Billables sit at 1800. And 5pm genuinely means 5pm, aside from the odd sprint when a deal needs to close. Sure, there will be busy periods, but they're the exception, not rule.

You’ll be drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, leases, amendments, and other transaction documents. Running due diligence on title, survey, and zoning matters. Preparing and reviewing closing documents. And you’ll be talking directly with clients, lenders, title companies, brokers, and opposing counsel, not just drafting quietly in the background while someone else calls the shots.

You’ll support senior attorneys on the bigger, more complex transactions while steadily building toward independently managing your own matters. It's the kind of role where your responsibility grows in step with your experience, not years after you've already earned it.

If you want serious, sophisticated transactional work without giving up your evenings to it, this is worth a proper conversation.

• Active bar license in Texas (or UBE transfer already underway)
• 2-4 years of transactional real estate experience at a law firm
• Experience across leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions preferred