Professional Support Lawyer, Real Estate, Deloitte Legal Birmingham, England
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.
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.
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 are looking to recruit a Senior Professional Support Lawyer into the Real Estate team.
The role will include:
- Creating, developing, and maintaining market-leading content
- Devising and writing practice notes, precedents and other materials
- Developing a precedent bank, practice and guidance notes and a Know-How database
- Design and implementation internal training
- Develop strong relationships with Partners and fee earners
- Keeping fee earners informed of new points of law
Connect to your skills and professional experience
This is an opportunity for someone with significant experience in real estate and the right mix of attitude, vision, skills and drive to work with us at Deloitte Legal. We particularly look for traits such as curiosity, energy and drive and being a great team player.
Legal
- A strong background in providing academic and technical legal input for the preparation legal articles, client briefings, commentaries and other market developments
- Ability to prioritise deliverables, meet deadlines and manage a varied workload in a fast-paced environment
- Effective interpersonal, written and oral communication
- Strong presentation skills
Flexibility
- A constructive and solutions-focused approach to work
- Enthusiasm for delivering legal services via a non-traditional delivery model and multidisciplinary offering
- Interest in process and proposition design; always looking for ways in which to improve the way in which services are delivered
Teamwork
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively across multiple and varied teams
- Willingness to take on responsibility, and determination to see things through and deliver to a high standard
- Skilled at managing competing priorities and pressure
- Ambition and desire to contribute to the success of the Real Estate group and Deloitte
Connect to your service line - Tax
Innovation and tax consultancy may not seem to go together, but that’s exactly what you’ll find at Deloitte. We’re constantly seeking the new and working together to push the limits of what’s possible. Discover a new kind of tax career that you can make your own.
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
“Deloitte encourages employees not only to have a work life balance but also to get involved in charitable projects, business development and technology innovation (just to name a few!) alongside client work. It’s a hugely fulfilling place to work.” -Becky,Deloitte Legal
“Deloitte is innovative and about to change the face of the legal market, so now is a great time to join. It’s a supportive environment that helps you grow and become the best analyst possible.” -Eugenia,Deloitte Legal
Connect to your agile working options
Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester
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 Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Manchester 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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