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Current Vacancies
Commercial Property Lawyer
Are you a passionate legal professional looking to work for a well-established Legal 500 team? Laceys invites you to become an integral part of our trusted Commercial Property team.
Key Highlights of The Role:
- Join as an experienced member of the team, advising on all types of commercial property matters.
- Engage in a fee-earning role that brings versatility through a broad array of matters, ensuring professional growth and direct impact.
- Contribute to business development to cultivate your own client base while supporting the firm’s long-standing clients.
Who We’re Looking For:
- A qualified Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive with a minimum of 4-5 years’ PQE in Commercial Property.
- Experience of handling a range of complex commercial property transactions
- A resilient, well-organised professional able to manage diverse caseloads and excel in client relationships.
If this sounds like you, and you are looking to work within an established team where you can provide support and supervision to more junior team members, we look forward to hearing from you.
In addition to annual leave, occupational sick pay and pension scheme membership, Laceys provides a range of benefits to support your health and wellbeing including our EAP scheme, a healthcare cash plan and bike2work scheme among others. Being based in Bournemouth for a lunchtime walk to the beach also helps. The role is available on a hybrid basis.
For full details on the role please click here: Commercial Property Lawyer
If you are interested please send your CV to r.cowdrill@laceyssolicitors.co.uk
Family Lawyer (Generalist)
Are you a Resolution member? If you’re as committed as we are to resolving matters constructively and with minimal conflict, this is a fantastic opportunity to join our well-established Family team within a Legal 500 firm.
We’re looking for someone to focus on Financial Remedy cases as their area of expertise, whilst also displaying a rounded competence in Family Law work.
This may be the role for you if you’re consistently sound in your approach with the ability to hit the ground running in a wide variety of private client family work including:
- financial remedy proceedings arising from divorce;
- pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements;
- private law childcare cases (contact and residence);
- family law injunctions; and
- child abduction (internal and external).
You will have at least 3 years PQE (probably more) and already be working on a range of complex cases, perhaps even at partner level. It will be a distinct advantage if you’ve developed a great reputation and following locally, have been collaboratively trained and / or are a member of the Law Society’s Family Panel.
This is a genuine opportunity for progression within the firm. If this sounds like you, and you are looking to work within an established team where you can provide support and supervision to more junior team members, we look forward to hearing from you.
In addition to annual leave, occupational sick pay and pension scheme membership, Laceys provides a range of benefits to support your health and wellbeing including our EAP scheme, a healthcare cash plan and bike2work scheme among others. Being based in Bournemouth for a lunchtime walk to the beach also helps. The role is available on a hybrid basis.
For full details on the role please click here: Family Lawyer
If you are interested please send your CV to r.cowdrill@laceyssolicitors.co.uk
Private Client Lawyer
Are you a passionate legal professional seeking to make a significant impact in Private Client Law? Laceys invites you to become an integral part of our well-established Private Client team – a dynamic and supportive environment where your expertise will flourish.
Key Highlights of The Role:
- Join as an experienced member, advising on all areas of private client law, including drafting Wills, probate matters including administration of complex estates, tax and lifetime planning, trust administration, and more.
- Engage in a fee-earning role that brings versatility through a broad array of matters, ensuring professional growth and direct impact.
- Opportunity to contribute to business development and to cultivate your own client base while supporting the firm’s long-standing clients.
Who We’re Looking For:
- Qualified Solicitors or Chartered Legal Executives with 2-3 years’ PQE in a reputable Private Client department.
- Individuals with exceptional knowledge in private client law and a desire to stay ahead of legal trends.
- STEP accreditation is advantageous, demonstrating a commitment to excellence in our field.
- Resilient, well-organised professionals able to manage diverse caseloads and excel in client relationships.
This is a genuine opportunity for progression within the firm. If this sounds like you, and you are looking to work within an established team where you can provide support and supervision to more junior team members, we look forward to hearing from you.
In addition to annual leave, occupational sick pay and pension scheme membership, Laceys provides a range of benefits to support your health and wellbeing including our EAP scheme, a healthcare cash plan and bike2work scheme among others. Being based in Bournemouth for a lunchtime walk to the beach also helps. The role is available on a hybrid basis.
For full details on the role please click here: Private Client Lawyer
If you are interested please send your CV to r.cowdrill@laceyssolicitors.co.uk
Accounts Assistant / Legal Cashier
Our small but busy accounts department are looking for someone to work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday on a full-time basis (7 hours/day, 21 hours/week). There may be additional hours in the future.
This is a varied role with a focus on delivering timely and accurate transactional work. It’s a high-volume, deadline-driven area subject to regulatory rules, so you’ll need to be able to work well as part of a team.
You’ll be responsible for:
- identification, allocation and processing of a high volume of receipts and payments which come into the firms’ bank accounts;
- all related on-line banking receipt and payment processing activities
- daily reconciliations of those bank accounts by effective use of our practice
- management accounting software (Tikit Partner for Windows)
- accurately recording all transactions on the accounting systems
- general support of the team.
Previous experience as a Legal Cashier/in a law firm is an advantage but not essential – as is an understanding of the principles of the Solicitors Accounts Rules and money laundering regulations. You’ll have excellent working knowledge of electronic accounting systems and a high degree of IT literacy generally. Experience of, and confidence in, dealing with a high volume of financial transactions, including large transactions, is a must.
In addition to annual leave, occupational sick pay and pension scheme membership, Laceys provides a range of benefits to support your health and wellbeing including our EAP scheme, a healthcare cash plan and bike2work scheme among others. Being based in Bournemouth for a lunchtime walk to the beach also helps. The role is available on a hybrid basis after an initial induction and training period.
For full details on the role please click here: Accounts Assistant May 2024
If you are interested please send your CV to r.cowdrill@laceyssolicitors.co.uk
Legal Assistant – Commercial Property
This is an exciting opportunity to support the wider Commercial Property team whilst focussing on one-to-one support to a well-regarded senior partner.
We’d like to hear from you if you’re motivated by a busy workload and relish keeping on track of a variety of important deadlines. You’ll be an experienced administrator with a flexible approach, used to providing secretarial support at a senior level in a professional services environment and with a good understanding of the importance of compliance processes and procedures.
Key duties include:
- Responding efficiently to client queries as a first point of contact, ensuring a positive client experience and maintaining excellent ongoing relationships
- Undertaking and effectively prioritising dictated tasks on a daily basis, which will include creating various emails and letters to clients and third parties as well as drafting of contracts and transfers
- Effectively managing numerous versions of large documents including contract, leases, licenses and mortgage deeds – ensuring accurate version control and use of tracked changes. Consistently demonstrating attention to detail
- Working in a ‘paper light’ way, scanning documentation and ensuring that electronic files are maintained to a high standard on the case management system
- Maintaining all case files to a high standard and in accordance with SRA requirements, the Law Society protocol, Laceys’ procedures and the LEXCEL quality mark requirements
The role is full time and office based.
The person
Your organisation and communication skills will be second to none. Attention to detail and effective time management is a must.
A high degree of IT literacy, particularly a good familiarity with MS Office and ideally with experience of using electronic case management systems is a requirement. You’ll regularly work with detailed legal documents and so proficiency in version control and use of ‘track changes’ is essential.
Experience in a similar role in a residential or commercial property legal team is a distinct advantage. Basic accounting knowledge as it relates to property processes is also an advantage. You may even have a legal secretarial qualification or business or administrative qualification to NVQ Level 3 or equivalent. You’ll be comfortable with dictation.
In addition to annual leave, occupational sick pay and pension scheme membership, Laceys provides a range of benefits to support your health and wellbeing including our EAP scheme, a healthcare cash plan and bike2work scheme among others. Being based in Bournemouth for a lunchtime walk to the beach also helps.
For full details on the role please click here: Legal Assistant – Commercial Property
If you are interested please send your CV to r.cowdrill@laceyssolicitors.co.uk
