Principal Associate - Housing Development & Regeneration - Leeds

Applications are welcomed from experienced and ambitious residential lawyers with strong technical skills, commercial awareness, and a collaborative approach. The role will be wide ranging but key skills will include:

Managing your own caseload to tight deadlines, remain calm under pressure and prioritise your workload effectively

Working in a team environment (which may involve working as part of a larger project team) and support your colleagues

Supervising and developing junior colleagues

Giving clear, practical advice with sound commercial judgment and swift accurate implementation of instructions

Negotiating effectively and deliver commercial solutions for our clients

Communicating appropriately at all levels within the team and the wider business as well as with clients, agents and other parties

Working closely and collaboratively with Gowling WLG team members, clients, and other professionals (e.g. local authorities, agents, surveyors, consultants, accountants and others)

Contributing to business development and marketing

Assisting on tenders to prospective clients including potential to take part in the pitch teams

Taking responsibility for management functions and projects within the business appropriate to your experience

The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work® for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

A hybrid approach to office and remote working.

Generous annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave

Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members

A generous pension allowance

Life assurance covering four times your annual salary

The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years

Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes

A range of health and wellbeing programmes

State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant

Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description, please contact Nana Panti-Amoa <Nana.Panti-Amoa@uk.gowlingwlg.com>

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