Managing Associate – Real Estate Disputes (5PQE+)

With the continued success of the team, we are looking to recruit an ambitious senior/managing associate (5 Year PQE+) to join our growing Manchester based team. This is a high performing, cohesive and busy team with a strong client list and pipeline which we are hoping to grow with further recruits.

At Addleshaw Goddard, we not only provide technical excellence and experience but, crucially, demonstrate real insight into our clients and what really matters to them. Our people fulfil their potential in an environment where they are developed and valued. We put ourselves in our clients' shoes, as part of a team of effective business people as well as efficient lawyers.

Culturally, the team are supportive, motivated and down to earth and work closely together to find innovative solutions and provide the best service possible. We ensure everyone is given the opportunity to flourish, learn and grow. We are genuinely invested in our employees' development and careers and have evidenced the progression, opportunities and professional development on offer.

It is important that we provide a positive experience to everyone who works here and our focus on financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits ensures that this experience goes beyond the nine-to-five. As an employee at AG, you will benefit from a flexible and agile culture. We are committed to making agile working accessible to all, balancing our employees' needs with the requirements of the team, the firm and its clients.

The Real Estate Division is one of Addleshaw Goddard's largest. The Real Estate Disputes team (known internally as the RED team) is one of the largest and strongest in the UK, comprising 24 lawyers (including 5 Partners), plus paralegals and trainees. The RED team has vast experience in acting on a range of high value, high profile and complex litigation cases, particularly in relation to institutional clients and occupiers with extensive property portfolios.

You can expect to work on a variety of property disputes (predominantly commercial property) including landlord and tenant, development, telecoms etc at all levels of the Court System. Responsibilities will include dealing with (and in many cases supervising/being client facing for) a full range of landlord and tenant matters including lease renewals (contested and uncontested), dilapidation claims, service of break notices, forfeiture and possession actions.

You will handle your own matters and assist the Partners and more senior members of the team on more complex matters. As a Managing Associate, you will also play a lead role in supervising junior members of the team. There will also be opportunities for client facing roles, such as account manager type roles for some of the division's large clients.

This is a high performing, cohesive and busy team with excellent prospects for career development. We have a strong reputation for providing Associates and Managing Associates with early levels of responsibility within a supportive, stretching environment.

You will be based in the Manchester office. You will be encouraged to travel around the offices to build your internal profile and win work from our internal client – the wider real estate division. We operate a flexible, hybrid working system comprising a blend of working in the office and working from home.

You will be commercially aware, with not only a strong knowledge of the law but the ability to apply it effectively, giving our clients useful advice that is commercially beneficial to their businesses. You will have experience in client facing roles, taking instructions directly from clients and managing/delegating more routine matters, in addition to running your own less routine matters.

We want to attract candidates who want to know how to become successful as part of a team culture. You must have demonstrable academics or relevant experience or interests. In return, we expect that you will welcome this and see this as an opportunity for your personal development.

What can you expect? An attractive, market-leading pay package, a supportive team culture where we all look out for each other, regular engagement with senior lawyers who genuinely care about your development and training, and secondment opportunities if you want them.

Therefore, we offer the following benefits:

• Flexible and agile working
• Life Assurance & Income Protection
• Competitive employer matched pension contribution rate
• Health and wellbeing subsidy, up to £180 per year
• One day per year to volunteer (as part of our CSR initiative)
• Buy/Sell holidays (up to 5 days each year)
• Mental health and wellbeing initiatives
• Market leading talent referral bonus incentives
• AG Excellence awards for the recognition of exceptional effort
• Opt in private medical and private dental insurance
• Opt in annual health screening
• Voluntary critical illness cover
• Annual discretionary bonus plan