WBD Advance, is our alternative legal services delivery group, bringing together a multidisciplinary team, process design and innovative legal technology.  The team has over 100 lawyers, paralegals, management information specialists and legal project managers who provide a wide range of services and solutions to clients, and supports the wider business on high volume workstreams, end-to-end managed services and bespoke projects. 

We're now looking to strengthen one of the sub-teams with an additional Real Estate Finance Lawyer.  The bulk of the team are in Bristol and Plymouth, so ability to attend either of these offices at least two days per week would be preferred, with the other days working from home.

What will you be doing?

You'll be responsible for the day-to-day management of established workstreams on behalf of predominantly banking clients.  This will include technical supervision and development of the four paralegals who support the workstreams, working closely with the Legal Solutions Centre Director and Partners, and the wider firm's Real Estate Finance team to continue to build these services and to identify opportunities for new workstreams. You will also work with project managers and legal technologists to onboard services and enhance them as they scale.   In addition, you will be called upon to support bespoke projects which fall within your areas of expertise.

Your role in WBD Advance's Legal Solutions Centre, which has a separate Real Estate team with whom you will work closely when projects and services overlap, will also involve being an advocate for innovation and service delivery within the firm to support on the optimisation of legal work, and to assist with winning of new clients.  This is a unique opportunity for someone to consolidate all the knowledge that you've developed so far, build on your technical expertise, as well as gain experience in project management, people management and emerging legal technologies.  The Legal Solutions Centre is a collaborative working environment with a varied workload and a track record of sustained growth, and, as a result, there is scope for career progression via a number of different routes for the right candidate.

So, what are we looking for?

To be successful in this role you'll need as a minimum:

• To be a UK qualified lawyer (applications from Cilex qualified candidates welcome)
• Experience as a qualified real estate lawyer, banking lawyer, or real estate finance lawyer
• Previous experience of supervising at least 1 person, within a legal team.

What makes it great to work here?

We continually work hard to create an open culture that sets us apart from other firms. Our culture gives us much more of a human feel, emphasising that we're more than just suits!

As signatories to the Mindful Business Charter, it's important to us that our people are able to maintain healthy and happy lives, both in and out of work. We have a number of resources and initiatives designed to support health and wellbeing and we're very happy to talk flexible working, full-time or part-time working patterns.

Through our DEI initiatives we create an environment in which difference is valued. We have an Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Group, led by our Board Sponsor, which works with our colleague networks (we currently have firm supported networks for race, ethnicity, and cultural heritage, LGBTQ+, disabilities, families, and women's career development and we're in constant dialogue with our people about how we expand our networks to better support everybody). Find out more about ED&I at WBD here. We encourage applicants from all social backgrounds, ethnicities, disabilities, gender identities and sexual orientations.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long term condition and need us to make any adjustments to give you the best possible recruitment process, please let us know by contacting the recruiter on the right hand side of this page. Please also let us know if you need this job advert or the application form in a different format.

We will offer an interview to candidates with a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum criteria for this role. You can opt into this scheme within the application form. Your response to this question is only used for this purpose, is only visible to the recruitment team and is not used for data monitoring. 

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