Job description
Connect to your Industry
Deloitte’s legal practice in the UK is part of the global Deloitte Legal network, which has over 2,500 lawyers in more than 85 jurisdictions. This makes Deloitte Legal one of the largest legal businesses in the world with a global footprint that exceeds that of any traditional global law firm.
At Deloitte Legal we are re-imagining the way we deliver legal expertise and how we solve problems. By integrating legal advisory services with our vast consulting services and tech capabilities, we’re transforming the way that we deliver unique legal services. We can tap into the multidisciplinary expertise of Deloitte to provide holistic legal, tax, risk, financial advisory and other consulting advice to an unmatched list of clients.
We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you, please do discuss with us.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
Come and join a Real Estate Legal Team who sees things a bit differently. We are looking to recruit an experienced senior Planning Lawyer to join our growing Real Estate practice.
You will be working in our national Real Estate Legal team and will be providing advice to clients across a variety of different sectors including:
- Identifying and pursuing new business opportunities both externally and internally within the wider Deloitte business
- Drafting and negotiating s106 and other infrastructure agreements
- Advising in relation to listed building and planning control including enforcement action
- Advising on contentious planning matters including judicial review and planning inquiries
- Advising on the Community Infrastructure Levy
- Advice relating to compulsory purchase and compensation
- Local Plan representations and objecting to planning applications
- Providing strategic advice to a variety of Deloitte clients with little or no supervision
Connect to your skills and professional experience
- Qualified Solicitor with proven PQE or equivalent
- Experience gained within an established UK planning team
- A wide range of planning experience
- Strong knowledge and understanding of UK planning law, regulation, policies and procedures
- Be commercial aware with enthusiasm for business development, and an appetite for keeping up to date with the latest developments in your practice area and sector focus
- Be dedicated to applying the power of technology and great process design to leverage impact as a legal professional
- Has a constructive and solutions focused approach to work
- Be understanding of your client’s business needs, and act in the best interest of the firm and client
- A knowledge of key areas of the law by providing clear, precise, and practical advice
- A commitment to regularly update their own technical expertise and to achieve continuous improvement and development; and
- Flexible enough to thrive in a non-traditional legal environment and team structure, with a non-traditional delivery model
- Always looking for ways in which to improve the way in which services are delivered
Connect to your business - Deloitte Legal
By connecting legal expertise and technological innovation, we’re creating a new future for law. At Deloitte Legal, you’ll work collaboratively to transform business outcomes, as you grow your own career. Join us and experience the future of law, today.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
“At Deloitte I am encouraged to work from home whenever it’s convenient. My hours are flexible – if I want to start earlier or later I can, provided I work my weekly hours overall. There are loads of non-work-related initiatives going on that you can become involved in.”
- Becky, Deloitte Legal
“Our ability to seamlessly integrate legal services into broader solutions offered by Deloitte is a differentiator as compared to traditional law firms. Deloitte also has some impressive proprietary technology which we can use to streamline/improve the delivery of legal services. We are ahead of the competition in this regard, including the other Big Four.”
- Benjamin, Deloitte Legal
Connect to your agile working options
Location: Manchester, Birmingham
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
You’ll be joining one of our innovative virtual communities. Which means you’ll be part of the Manchester, Birmingham team. You’ll have the flexibility to work from home or a client site as required. You’ll also have access to a number of local collaboration spaces where you can meet with colleagues when needed to support your role. Our hybrid-working model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity.
You’ll have all the support you need to succeed, including robust tech and home workstation set-up guidance, as well as access to a variety of flexible working spaces and all sorts of social activities for you to join. We’re continually innovating our working practices too, so you can expect to see new and exciting technology developments coming soon.
The future of work is evolving fast and we’re already leading the way, by enabling flexibility for our people, and making it easy for us all to connect and collaborate.
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Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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