Senior Associate

IBB's Real Estate Dispute Resolution team comprises highly experienced lawyers who are dedicated solely to resolving property disputes. This makes it a leading team of its kind in London and the South East. We combine property industry knowledge with technical expertise to deliver commercially effective advice.

We know that property clients find litigation an unwelcome distraction from their core business. They want their disputes resolved sensibly and quickly. This is why our real estate dispute resolution lawyers are strong negotiators who endeavour to achieve clients' commercial objectives without recourse to litigation. Where face-to-face negotiation fails, we encourage the use of mediation to resolve disputes. All our senior lawyers are ADR GroupAccredited Mediators.

Of course, there are occasions where litigation is unavoidable and our lawyers are experienced in taking complex property disputes to trial. We handle litigation in the High Court, County Court, Technology & Construction Court, Lands Tribunal and at arbitration.

Senior team members are independently recognised legal experts and are active members of the Property Litigation Association.

Handling a wide range of contentious property matters for clients including property companies, corporate occupiers and private clients.

Such disputes would include those (a) arising out of residential and commercial leases; (b) arising out of the buying and selling of land and (b) arising out of the development of land.

The successful candidate should:

• want to take responsibility for his/her own cases, and be happy to develop good working relationships with clients;
• feel free to bounce ideas off colleagues, and ask questions;
• be able to carefully analyse information and reach sound decisions;
• seek to recognise the commercial drivers and react accordingly;
• recognise issues and problems that may arise and adapt (keeping clients and colleagues informed where necessary); and
• be able to listen and communicate effectively and succinctly both orally and in writing.

The successful candidate will be expected to meet the Firm’s quality standards including:

• ensuring that all chargeable work is properly recorded on client matters;
• adhering to the Law Society’s client care directive and to the firm’s own policies as set out in the Office Manual; and
• maintaining good file management as set out in the Office Manual.

Develop own self-organisational and interpersonal skills so that:

• work is prioritised and progressed; and there is a balance of working on own initiative and seeking advice/guidance from others.

Qualifications

• Law degree (or conversion) and LPC.
• Successful Admittance to the Roll of Solicitors.
• 5-6 years PQE (indicative only).  We would also be happy to consider more senior solicitors.
• Candidates should be able to demonstrate property litigation experience.

Skills and Experiences

• Analytical ability: able to identify and deal with the core elements of a problem.
• Adaptable: able to embrace change. Is responsive to different ways of working and learns new tasks quickly.
• Collaboration with others: able to work with others to achieve a task; active team member.
• Communication: able to express oneself clearly orally and in writing, and to do so in a manner that is concise and assertive, but courteous.
• Quality: produces work which is consistently accurate with an attention to detail.
• Initiative: thinks through what may need to be done and assists colleagues who are busy.
• Planning and organising: thinks ahead to plan work so that tasks are not affected when additional tasks arise; is able to track and monitor progress of own work and alert clients or senior colleagues if a schedule may not be met.
• Reliability: demonstrates commitment to achieving tasks; manages expectations of others and completes work when promised.