Job Description

We're a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Whether it's personal or business, we understand that everyone's situation is different. But we're more than just a law firm - we're a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life's ups and downs. Working here you'll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment.
We'll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities.
We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators. Please speak to a member of our Recruitment and Onboarding team for more information.
Your Role and What You'll Be Doing
We're looking for a talented Real Estate Practice Development Lawyer (PDL) to support our national Real Estate team. This is a pivotal role focused on knowledge management, training delivery, innovation, and providing expert support to fee-earners across all our offices. Depending on your experience, we're open to appointing at Practice Development Lawyer or Senior Practice Development Lawyer level.
Our national transactional Real Estate team advises on everything from strategic land and regeneration to acquisitions, funding and leasing. Our clients include institutional investors, developers, housebuilders, landlords and occupiers.
In this role, you'll work alongside an experienced Real Estate PDL and our highly collaborative wider Practice Development team of 16 PDLs to:

• Drive Practice Development initiatives, ensuring our teams have access to accurate, up-to-date legal resources to support day-to-day work, strengthen client relationships, and contribute to business development.
• Play an active part in firm-wide knowledge projects, representing the Real Estate practice, shaping processes and services, and helping implement our Practice Development strategy.
• Deliver training and innovation that empowers our lawyers and enhances client service, including helping embed our AI tools into our ways of working.
• Horizon-scan legal and market developments, as well as new innovations, helping our fee earners to stay on top of legal change, reduce risk, and work efficiently.

We offer flexibility on location, with travel to our offices as needed. Full-time is preferred, but we welcome part-time applications
About You

• An experienced PDL or a fee-earner seeking a first move into a PDL role
• Have a strong background in commercial, transactional Real Estate Law
• Proactive in handling a high volume of technical, legal queries
• Have a keen interest in knowledge management, technology, and innovation, including AI.
• Experienced in arranging and delivering technical training and helping to draft articles and communications to be shared with clients and the wider market
• Proven experience to effectively communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of people and job functions
• Excellent verbal, written and listening skills and the ability to articulate positions/opinions clearly, effectively and objectively

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• Excellent support from PDL paralegals
• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - you can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.

We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2025!
Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We're committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim.
Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It's made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.
Additional Information
As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group's on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group's employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders.
We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties.
The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.
Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
We're proud of our values, and we're looking for people who share them
Sub-Department:
Practice Development
Sub-Division:
Technical Client Services
Company:
IM LLP
Working Hours:
Full Time
Vacancy Type:
Permanent
:
Flexible
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