Private Property Associate (ref:1026)

Build your career within a market-leading Private Property team

Our client is a highly regarded international law firm seeking to expand their Private Property team, in Cheltenham.

The team has extensive, market-leading expertise advising individuals, trustees, families and charities on their property and private affairs. This is a genuine opportunity to build a specialist career from an early stage, within a group known for its technical excellence and the quality of its client relationships.

The Role

You’ll be working with a fascinating and prestigious client base, high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth individuals and families, from the UK and overseas, alongside private UK and international banks and private investment companies. The work spans property transactions, security and investments, giving you genuine breadth and complexity from the outset.

You can expect to be involved in:

• Providing legal advice to clients in a succinct, practical and persuasive manner
• Managing a substantial and varied workload efficiently and cost-effectively, with supervision appropriate to your level of expertise
• Drafting accurately and logically, making good use of precedents
• Applying a commercial approach to research, evaluating relevance and accuracy in the advice you deliver
• Supporting Partners with client marketing and business development, helping to grow the department’s client base and network of contacts and referrers
• Contributing to the team’s wider knowledge and know-how initiatives

About you

We’re looking for a good-quality generalist property lawyer who is keen to build a career within a friendly, collegiate team. You will have:

• Solid experience as a generalist property lawyer
• Some experience of, or a genuine interest in, landed estates and/or agricultural and rural property work — desirable, though not essential
• Confidence working both autonomously and as part of a team
• Strong planning and prioritisation skills, with a track record of delivering agreed outcomes on time
• Excellent organisation, with the ability to run a significant number of files and matters simultaneously while maintaining close attention to detail
• The ability to build trusted working relationships with a range of stakeholders, supporting collaboration and alignment
• Confident, clear communication — written and verbal — with a diverse range of clients
• A flexible approach and a genuine willingness to go the extra mile

What’s on offer

• A truly supportive environment for newly qualified colleagues, with tailored training designed to build the right foundations early in your career
• Access to a bespoke Business School programme, helping you develop professional business skills and start planning your career route
• Genuine exposure to complex, high-value property work within a market-leading, HNW/UHNW-focused practice
• A friendly, collegiate team culture with real investment in your long-term development
• Competitive salary and benefits package, reflective of experience and market position
• Clear and genuine opportunities for career progression

For more information and a confidential chat please contact: 

Sarah Wood

07897 074 891

swood@talislegalrecruitment.com