All
of these Premier Legal positions are located in Devon and Cornwall
Litigation Lawyer 2-6 years PQE £30-60K
Our client is a premier law firm based in central Cornwall.
Very unusually an opportunity has arisen for a litigator to join its highly regarded dispute resolution team.
The position will involve the resolution of commercial and civil disputes.
The firm seeks someone special who can spot strategies that most other litigators miss.
Organisation is a must but if you're essentially an administrator this is not for you.
Job Specification requirements include:
- Excellent client skills.
- Assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of client claims.
- Advising on the conduct of negotiations and carrying out negotiations on behalf of clients during all stages of the claim.
- Issuing and defending court proceedings and advising clients on each step of proceedings to the conclusion of or settlement of claim.
Our client offers a competitive remuneration package accompanied by the lifestyle benefits scheme together with the opportunity of joining the best Cornwall can offer.
Conveyancing Secretary - Truro £13-16K
You will join a pioneering property team that administer medium to
high-net-worth transactions. The office is exceptionally modern with
all the high-tech automation that is available.
Heading the team is a very experienced property professional that
needs support with all communication, organisation and systems work.
There will be the chance to progress to paralegal status and study
for the ILEX property diploma.
This in a career job within a forward thinking law firm that are very
commercially aware. The dress code in the office is relaxed, if you
want to wear your smart jeans to work, then so be it! A full range
of company benefits are available to the successful applicant.
Barrister: £30-50K
Cornwall Executive has been retained by one of the top law firms in the county.
We have been asked to locate and speak to Barristers who operate from chambers and work for clients covering a variety of disciplines.
Whether your career experience and work is within military, civil litigation, family, commercial property, commercial business, crime, e-commerce, employment, mergers and acquisitions or international finance etc.
Our client may well have a career opening that ideally suits your requirements.
This recruitment programme is open to candidates on a nationwide basis. Help with finding new accommodation in Cornwall is available.
Career - work re-training is also an available option.
Barrister - Litigation Professional - Solicitor, 30-50K
"Commercial Business"
Our client a local firm with great status in the local legal community, seek to find and employ the above professional fee earner.
Personal dynamics should encompass economic awareness, an entrepreneurial spirit and above all a will to win and assist in building a premiership law firm.
We seek a professional with five-ten years plus PQE. General commercial litigation, trust, crime and insolvency experience would interest our client as well as possible internet and e-commerce work.
Good advocacy experience are a must as well as having good client facing communication and negotiating skills.
The recruitment campaign welcomes applicants on a nationwide basis. Commercial business, E Commerce, Insurance and Commercial Property are all fee earning areas and experience that is of interest to our client.
Employment Lawyer - 1-2 PQE - in Cornwall
Our client a titanic player in the Law Firm constituency with extensive
expansion plans currently in action seek the above. Possessing excellent
academics and a wide-ranging knowledge of employment law. Our client
would be keen to meet with you to discuss future career possibilities.
The work will focus on both contentious and non-contentious problems.
Resolving both case sensitive and complex issues; Client's will see
you as the main technical point for referral and consultation.
You
will deal with employment tribunal applications on behalf of clients
resolving - unfair and constructive dismissal, harassment, redundancy
and other areas of employment conflict.
Your clients will include
private individuals, corporates, financial institutions, government
agencies and public sector vehicles.
Remuneration will be in-line
with the current market, but additionally includes bonus payments
at financial year end. Our client endorses the "life-style" corporate
benefits scheme which is quite unique.
Conveyancing Solicitor
An experienced, licensed
conveyancer is sought by our client, a busy two partner law firm in
Cornwall with a modern approach and several years accreditation in
both Lexcel and Investors in People.
The ideal professional for the job will be a residential conveyancing
solicitor, licensed conveyancer or someone part-qualified, possessing
time-served-experience.
The partnership was established in 1981 and
carries out high profile work on multi million pound projects. Additional
specialist work is carried out by the clinical negligence, personal
injury and general litigation team. The firm also holds a Legal Services
Commission Franchise in Family and Clinical Negligence.
In addition
to the above the firm also specialises in Residential Conveyancing,
Wills & Probate, Tax Planning and Family.
Our client's offices are
in new state-of-the-art surroundings on the outskirts of a popular
coastal town with the facility of ample parking for both staff and
clients.
The Role
They are looking for a highly motivated lawyer / legal executive
or licensed conveyancer with sufficient work experience in residential
conveyancing to be able to conduct their work with minimum supervision,
although Lexcel does impose a structure for a broad supervision of
fee earners.
As part of the Residential Conveyancing team, the successful
candidate will be assisted by a conveyancing executive who has considerable
experience in dealing with sales, purchases, remortgages and transfers
of equity.
In addition, the team also consists of a legal secretary and administration
assistant who together make the process proactive by sales chasing
client / estate agent contacts etc.
This firm's Residential Conveyancing
Department has built up and continues to achieve a reputation in the
town for a quality service as well as a constructive rapport with
local estate agents. It is their aim that the Residential Conveyancer
and his or her team persist in this approach.
The successful candidate will have:
- The ability to oversee and supervise
the team
- The enthusiasm to drive the case management system and
expand the Department.
They are a progressive legal practice and the
position will ideally suit a lawyer who will relish the prospect of
working for a small firm where you can "make a difference".
All the
fee earners and other senior personnel also take an active role in
the business development of the firm. The salary will be commensurate
with experience and expertise.
Company and Commercial Lawyer £30-50K
Our client - a leading Cornish law firm seek to appoint a company
and commercial lawyer. Possibly you are working in one of the larger
cities in the UK and wish to relocate. A relocation package is on
offer and can be discussed at the inception meeting.
The role is based within a team that have a
rapidly expanding client base. Clients range from small to medium
sized companies all based here in the South West. Businesses are trading
as tourism, farming, retail, and services, industrial and manufacturing
entities. The mix is what you would expect from a coastal region flavoured
with an agricultural ingredient.
Dispute Resolution Solicitor - £30-50K
Our client a leading Cornish law firm seek to appoint two experienced litigators to join the very busy and expanding Dispute Resolution Team.
Work experience in commercial litigation, with a focus on problem solving and working closely with and for clients; giving a high standard of care and showing good attention to detail.
Our client requires two professionals one with 2 years plus PQE. The other candidate should possess 6 years plus PQE. The more senior lawyer will provide a management function acting as mentor and assisting the two junior members of the DR. team.
Company & Commercial Lawyer
Partner Potential - very interesting position for someone new to the
county or a lawyer with real ambition. This position offers a route
to partnership and the chance to build a new division within the firm.
The company is based mid-county and has six partners, busy in all
usual business / work activities of a country law firm.
This position could suit three types of candidate:
Firstly, an ambitious Company and Commercial Lawyer with just over
two years PQE looking for a fast track route into the partnership
arena.
Secondly, a well seasoned professional with over 6-8 years PQE, again
a Company and Commercial specialist who is going to make partner at
their current firm but has ambitions of assuming the prestigious role
of Managing Partner. This Managing Partner opportunity is also a possibility
due to the current flexible structure of the law firm client.
Finally, a Commercial Litigator 2-4 years PQE who has had previous
Company and Commercial work experience. The professional who is successful
in this newly created opportunity. Has a real chance of securing a
career position offering challenging prospects and an excellent remuneration
package.
Partner Private Clients - Wills, Trusts & Probate
Our client, a specialist law firm with centrally located outrageously
prestigious offices seeks to appoint the above. Although we are currently
engaged in a retained search for the above mentioned specialist partner,
applications are invited from a nationwide audience with sound technical
experience.
The financial remuneration package will be in line with a capital
city earnings structure. This could prove very attractive for a relocator
to the county or an ambitious local. Ideally, we seek a legal professional
with at least 7 years PQE.
Work experience should have included: - Wills and probate executries,
curatories, estate planning, trust administration, attendance tax,
compliance issues and work. Clients will be high-net-worth-individuals,
farmers, pensioners, entrepreneurs, rock stars, pop stars, internet
wizards, computer boffins, landed gentry, scientists and other successful
county inhabitants. Examples of your financial engineering estates
planning skills would be of great interest to our prestigious law
firm client. We warmly welcome your application.
Family Lawyer - Partner Potential
As a specialist law firm based in Cornwall employing some of the best
legal specialists in the county and a corporate client list which
is nationwide. Our client certainly is always in the news and under
the spotlight. They enjoy a reputation in the local law firm gladiatorial
arena which I may say is very enviable. To whom you may ask. Well
most of the other players and contenders of repute. Our client has
won awards of excellence, and just seem to go from strength-to-even-stronger.
They currently seek a quality family legal specialist who is a panel
member and has a following of private clients from the right sector
of local society. Future-partner-potential is a real factor attached
to this appointment. So we seek a professional who is time served
and seeks that elusive golden opportunity.
Our clients have an extremely
prestigious and spacious office. Located in a part of our county that
allows very easy commuting access. If you are a time served successful
family professional. That after much thought and deliberation seeks
this sort of elusive, demanding but very rewarding opportunity, then
please apply.
Head of Residential Conveyancing
Without doubt we would have no hesitation in recommending our client
to a time served residential conveyancer. Ideally we seek 7 years
plus PQE; A FILEX qualification would be a real bonus. Our client's
premises are very prestigious and easy access is gained from all parts
of the county which is a real bonus, additionally I may add offering
easy parking.
Our clients are offering an above market remuneration
package which is geared to productivity. This is a team leader position
and managerial experience is required. Although we are not ruling
out someone who is time served, but has only managed a small business
unit.
For further details of all vacancies, please call Cornwall Executive
on 01872 274 227
