Commercial Property Solicitor (NQ)
Location: Kendal
Salary: £40,000 to £50,000 plus bonus and benefits
Experience: Newly Qualified
If you’ve just qualified and you want a Commercial Property role where you’ll get real responsibility, strong support, and a sensible approach to targets, this is a great move. You’ll join a team known for being proactive, commercial, and genuinely invested in developing its people.
Our client is a market-leading, full-service law firm with a strong reputation for looking after its people. They offer a supportive, people-first culture, with clear progression routes and flexible working.
This is a newly qualified position within a busy Commercial Property team based in Kendal. You’ll work on a broad mix of matters, with regular client and agent contact, and the chance to build your technical skills quickly while developing your own style as a trusted adviser.
The team advises investors, lenders, developers and entrepreneurs across a range of sectors. The work is varied and often transactional, so it suits someone who enjoys pace, detail, and building relationships.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Running your own caseload with appropriate supervision
- Liaising with supervisors to manage workload and priorities
- Drafting and negotiating transactional documentation
- Providing clear, practical advice and regular updates to clients and agents
- Using a case management system and maintaining accurate file records
- Building relationships with clients and contacts, and contributing to business development
- Working closely with colleagues across other service lines to deliver a joined-up client service
- Supporting wider team objectives and promoting the firm’s values
What We’re Looking For
- Newly qualified Solicitor, ideally with a seat in Commercial Property / Real Estate
- Confidence managing your own caseload with some supervision
- Strong attention to detail and high standards of accuracy
- Excellent communication and client-handling skills
- Strong organisation and the ability to prioritise to meet deadlines
- Good IT skills and comfort working with case management systems
- A self-motivated, collaborative approach
- Interest in business development and building a network over time
Desirable
- Experience with SOS case management
What’s On Offer
- Hybrid working
- Maximum of 1,200 chargeable hours per annum
- Employee bonus scheme and annual pay review
- Medicash health benefits cash plan and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Holiday entitlement that increases with length of service
- Paid time off for voluntary work (2 days per year)
- Free conveyancing for the purchase/sale of your primary residence
- Free individual or mirror Wills
- Employee referral scheme
- Biannual promotion and salary uplift application process
- Regular social events, including an annual Christmas party and staff recognition awards
- A supportive culture with genuine investment in development and wellbeing
Working Arrangements
- Full-time
- Hybrid working
All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. We will always obtain your express permission before sharing your details with our client.
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