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About The Role

We are actively looking for a new Associate or Senior Associate to join our Real Estate Disputes team in the Thames Valley. The Team is evolving and expanding as a result of our continued success and there is an exciting opportunity to be part of future growth.

The team advises investors, developers, owners and occupiers of real estate on how best to avoid, manage and resolve real estate issues and disputes. "We listen to client’s priorities and use our skills to reach a swift resolution". We work closely with our colleagues in the property transactional, construction and planning teams to ensure a full and seamless real estate service for clients.
This opportunity offers you the chance to work with a broad range of clients from international corporates, national and local corporates, NHS, local government, charities, universities and colleges, schools and individuals. As well as the opportunity to work with our established national team of 6 partners and 8 fee earners across all of HCR’s offices.

We are looking for a dynamic and self-motivated candidate with Real Estate Disputes experience who is used to working independently within a close team. The successful candidate will be running their own caseload which will involve advising on a diverse mix of:

Real estate issues arising from:

• land sale and purchase transactions
• development agreements
• option and overage provisions
• rights of light
• restrictive covenants
• nuisance
• boundary disputes
• trespassers
• providing strategic advice to obtain vacant possession of development sites.

Landlord and tenant issues, acting for either landlords or tenants, arising from:

• commercial lease renewals
• rent reviews
• lease assignment and subletting, breaches of lease covenants
• unlawful use and alteration
• recovering possession of commercial and residential premises
• effective exercise of lease break rights
• mixed use schemes including statutory right of pre-emption

You will be responsible for:

• Taking instructions and liaising with clients
• Managing your own case load
• Supporting and supervising other fee earners on a variety of cases
• Managing financial outputs and billing responsibilities
• Developing and maintaining a knowledge on legal issues, working collaboratively with colleagues across the team to share knowledge.
• Ensuring work complies with risk management policies and procedures, in line with Data Protection regulations.
• Supporting wider marketing and business development opportunities.

About You

You will need to:

• Have extensive experience as a litigator and advisor, potentially with your own following or referral network
• Have had exposure to the County Court, the Lands Tribunal and the First Tier Tribunal
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and successfully manage client relationships
• Demonstrate teamwork and relationship building skills
• Possess strong commercial acumen
• Be ambitious and organised with a keen eye for detail
• Use your own initiative to manage own caseload of files
• Be confident and pro-active.

About Us

Benefits of working with us:

• Private Medical Insurance

• Parking

• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme

• 27 days annual leave (plus public holidays)
• Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Life Assurance
• 1/3 gym membership contribution
• Flu vaccinations

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 70, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With eleven offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons has led to the addition of two new office locations (Northampton and Milton Keynes), and even further growth in London and Cambridge.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

At HCR, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients.

We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.

A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership

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