Agriculture, Estates and Rural Property Solicitor

We have an exciting opportunity for an individual with between 0 to 5 years' PQE, to join our growing Agriculture, Estates and Rural Property team, which continues to experience exceptional success within the sector.

The ideal candidate will have experience of providing legal advice in some or all of the following areas:

• Selling, buying or letting rural property, including farms, landed estates, amenity land and woodland;
• Easement and rights of way, private or public;
• Agricultural tenancies, including successions;
• Minerals ownership, including title, registration and trespass issues;
• Working mines and minerals;
• Estate management work;
• First registrations;
• Sporting rights (shooting and fishing);
• Rural property secured lending (acting for lenders and/or borrowers);
• Renewable energy and energy storage schemes such as options and leases for solar farms.

We want someone who is proactive, a self-starter, with a strong technical ability. We've also set our sights on an individual with excellent people and client management skills, a keen interest in business development and good commercial awareness.

The Agriculture, Estates and Rural Property team is a key part of the wider Muckle LLP team, which is over 200 people strong. Our people are based across our Newcastle, Cumbria and Teesside offices, and we welcome applications from candidates interested in any of these locations.

Muckle LLP has a long-standing commitment to agile working, enabling our team to work from wherever is most suitable for them. Our modern office facilities complement this flexibility, ensuring our people have everything they need to deliver excellent service to our clients and each other.

Our business is full of bright, enthusiastic, articulate, colourful, confident people who live and breathe our core values:

• Trust - we trust each other to do the right thing
• Teamwork - we are one team and work selflessly for each other
• Responsibility - we are self-starters and take responsibility for how we work together and communicate
• Care - we care about our people, clients and community

It means, no matter who is involved, our clients receive the same excellent service from people who do what they say, on time and on budget, every time.

We want everyone to understand how our business is run and encourage all our people to get involved. We are also proud of the communities in which we live and work and give our people many ways to support them. For example, you could use your two days' paid volunteering leave to support a local cause you care about or nominate them for a grant from our Muckle Fund at the Community Foundation.

From workplace running, netball, cycling and walking clubs to fun events organised by our BEAM (Being Engaged At Muckle) team and participation in our Green Team to help make the business as environmentally friendly as possible, we've created a unique and award-winning place to work:

• B Corp Certified - the first law firm in the North East and Cumbria to achieve this accreditation, we are leading the charge in ethical and sustainable business practices within our region.
• Investors In People Platinum award accreditation
• North East Best Place to Work 2024 and 2023
• North East Business of the Year 2023
• North East Better Health at Work Maintaining Excellence award
• Advanced Good Work Pledge
• Award for Most Inspiring Employer (large business) 2022 and 2023 at the Inspiring Females Awards run by the North East of England Chamber of Commerce

We are really proud of the results of our recent Investors In People survey, in which 95% of our people believe Muckle is a great place to work. Our overall survey results place us 6th for law firms globally, across 75 countries.

If you're looking to work in a friendly, open environment and want to develop your career in a forward thinking, commercial North East law firm, then this is an excellent opportunity.