Job Description

Would you like to join a growing Tier 1 Planning team with an excellent client base?
Senior Associate / Legal Director - Ipswich or Cambridge with hybrid working
Client
A top 50 UK full service law firm with ambitious plans for growth
Role

• Delivering high quality legal services to clients, performance and risk management
• A focus on delivering high quality planning advice to local planning authority, housebuilder and development clients
• Working with the leadership team from time to time, assisting in the design, delivery and implementation of system changes, workflow and process improvements
• Being involved in business development activities to promote the office and the business as a whole

You

• 10+ years PQE with a well-developed knowledge in a range of Planning, Environmental and Compulsory Purchase
• Management experience to grow and supervise a team, with the technical ability to run and manage your own full caseload of files from initial instruction through to post completion
• Active in marketing and business development in order to expand this area of work and gain new clients, building good relationships with referrers in the local area

Benefits include:

• 25/30 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
• Private Healthcare
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme
• Staff Profit Share / Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
• Life Assurance
• Permanent Health Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• 35 hour working week

For further information and a confidential discussion, please contact sue.peers@erringtonlegal.co.uk
We are an equal opportunities recruiter, committed to ensuring an inclusive and supportive recruitment process. We embrace and promote diversity as we understand the importance and value of this both for us and our clients.
Company
Errington Legal is a legal specialist recruiter covering Solicitor and Legal Support vacancies in Cambridge, East Anglia and London. As specialists we are able to offer our candidates and clients a bespoke and proactive level of service during a recruitment campaign.
Our candidates are highly valued and respected by Errington Legal. We know how important a career move is to any individual, and we understand that we need to be there to suggest and advise, not pressure or push.
OUR COMMITMENT TO OUR CANDIDATES:
As a result of our extensive contacts and relationships we can offer you access to the finest legal firms in the area.
With our salary and market knowledge, we are in a good position to offer realistic advice on salary levels and also make sure that the candidate gets a competitive deal.
We offer feedback and support during and after the interview process.
Our relationships are always fully confidential and honest. No information on any individual is ever passed on to third parties without prior consent.
Errington Legal is committed to offering our clients a higher level of service as we have excellent market knowledge and access to the best calibre of candidates in the local area. We are able to identify the most talented and suitable candidates that will better support growing, forward thinking law firms and companies.
Company info Website Telephone 01223 803814 Location Nine Hills Road
Cambridge
Cambs
CB2 1GE
United Kingdom
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