Solicitor (Agricultural and Commercial Property, 3+ PQE)

Solicitor (Agricultural and Commercial Property, 3+ PQE) Head of Property, Cumbria. Lead a seven-strong team at a firm with no billing targets, with a directorship openly on the table. 35.5 days' leave, 5+ PQE. No need to cover all three disciplines. Agricultural & Commercial Property Solicitor — Cumbria No billing targets. 35.5 days' leave. A bonus the receptionist and the directors receive in equal measure. Plenty of firms will tell you they put quality before billing. Our client wrote it into policy. There are no billing targets, not soft ones, not team ones, none and there never have been. Progression is judged on the quality of your advice and how well you look after people, which is a very different job from the one most property lawyers are currently doing. They are a long-established practice in the Eden Valley, Cumbria, advising the same farming families, in some cases the same farms for well over a century. One office, sitting between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, covering property, private client, litigation and family. The reputation has long since outgrown the county: a growing share of the work now arrives by referral from clients nationally. The work • Sales, purchases and remortgages of farms and agricultural land • Farm business tenancies, grazing licences and agricultural landlord and tenant work • Title investigation and reporting, including the unregistered and the genuinely awkward • Easements, overages and rights of way • Working directly with land agents, rural lenders and the clients themselves, not through three layers of process • Commercial or residential property alongside it if that appeals What you get, specifically • A flat, firm-wide bonus. • 35.5 days' leave in practice — 33 days including bank holidays, your birthday off, and around a day and a half at Christmas • Funded professional development. The firm has put its own people through qualification and continues to. • Genuine flexibility. Full-time, part-time or 0.8 FTE, with hybrid working considered according to experience and circumstances. • Pension, free parking on the doorstep • A real route upwards. Head of Department and, in time, a directorship are both on the table for someone who wants them. This is a small firm; there is nobody queued up ahead of you. Who this suits • A qualified solicitor or CILEX legal executive. • Some agricultural or rural property experience. If you have been doing residential or commercial work for farming and estate clients and want to specialise properly, say so — the firm can train, and has. • Comfortable with landlord and tenant work • Someone who would rather know a client for fifteen years than close a file in fifteen days • A sense of humour. It is in the client's brief, in writing, and they mean it. Being straight with you This is a lifestyle move, not a commute. It is a small market town and a close team, where everyone knows roughly what everyone else is carrying. If you want the anonymity and the escalator of a large firm, this is not that. If you have been looking for somewhere to stop moving, it may be exactly that — people here tend to stay for years, and the ones who leave have a habit of coming back. Locations Cumbria Remote status Hybrid Cumbria Workplace & Culture We pride ourselves on our collaborative culture, which prioritises training and development and encourages networking. Accutrainee was founded on the principles of innovation, our high-level goal to partner with legal professionals throughout their legal career offering them more opportunity, more flexibility and more support. Our ultimate aim is to be recognised as the legal services company of choice for legal professionals and develop a supportive, friendly culture where quality is embedded in everything we do. About Accutrainee Accutrainee is an innovative legal services and technology company where quality matters. We partner with legal professionals throughout their career, offering training and development, job opportunities and mentoring. We offer opportunities for paralegals, trainees and qualified lawyers on a contract and permanent basis at a wide range of organisations including city law firms, niche practice firms, FTSE 100 companies, banks, fintechs and start-ups.