Job Description

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

 

Next Steps (How to Apply)

Apply online or send your CV to  lee.hawthorne-finch@h-fts.com  or call 0333 996 2882 for more information.

All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence. We will always obtain your express permission before sharing your details with our client.