Real Estate Development Senior Associate

Real Estate Development Senior Associate | 5+ Years PQE | Top 100 Firm | Leeds

A strong opportunity for a senior Real Estate Development lawyer to join a Legal 500 ranked team acting on regeneration, housing and development schemes for public and private sector clients.

What sets it apart is the working culture. Flexibility here is not a policy to be negotiated, it is simply how the team operates.

The Firm

This is a Top 100 UK firm with a Legal 500 ranked real estate practice, in a sustained period of growth and expansion across its offices.

The firm has built its reputation not just on the quality of its work, but on how it treats its people. There is a genuinely grown up culture here: no unnecessary presenteeism, no rigid expectations around office attendance, and no sense that flexibility needs to be earned. You will be trusted to do your job and supported to do it well.

That culture has not come at the expense of growth. The business has grown consistently year on year and is firmly on an upward trajectory, while remaining a place where output matters more than optics.

The Role

You will join the Leeds team as part of a national development practice, advising housing associations, local authorities, developers, investors and funders on the full span of property and development work, from strategic land acquisition and site assembly through to plot sales, joint ventures and development funding.

The firm's strength in the public and regulated sectors means the work has a dimension most development practices cannot offer. Schemes frequently sit across housing, regeneration, health and education, which gives you real breadth and a client base that keeps instructing rather than transacting once and disappearing.

The structure is national and genuinely collaborative, so you are not limited by geography in the work you can get involved in. At this level you will be leading your own matters and client relationships with the backing of experienced partners, supervising and developing junior lawyers, and playing a visible part in the continued growth of the practice.

The Ideal Candidate

• Solicitor at 5+ years PQE with strong real estate development experience

• Confident leading a varied caseload across a range of clients with minimal supervision

• Commercially aware and knowledgeable about the current development landscape

• Experience supervising and developing junior lawyers

• Ambitious about building client relationships and your own profile in the market

• Collaborative, and comfortable working across offices and teams

What's on Offer

• A Legal 500 ranked real estate practice within a Top 100 firm

• Complex, high value development work across the public and private sectors

• Ownership of your own matters and client relationships

• A national platform and a clear route to progression

• Competitive salary and strong benefits package

To find out more, contact Ollie Fearon at ollie@jmc-legal.com or call 07441 937638