Senior Lawyer

🔥 13 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Dentons

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10,000+ employees

💼 Consulting

⚖️ Legal

📋 Compliance

Consulting • Legal • Compliance

Dentons is the world's largest global law firm, offering a wide range of legal services through its member firms and affiliates across more than 160 locations worldwide. Dentons focuses on helping clients grow, protect, operate, and finance their businesses by providing comprehensive global solutions, insights, and legal expertise. The firm is recognized for its strength in sectors such as mergers and acquisitions, tax advisory, anti-bribery and corruption law, and legal management of data centers, among others. Its commitment to supporting international projects, such as the transformation and rebuild of Ukraine, demonstrates its global impact and ambition. Dentons also emphasizes knowledge sharing through webinars and thought leadership initiatives, targeting challenges and opportunities in the legal profession for general counsels and in-house legal teams.

📋 Description

• Manage a varied portfolio of commercial real estate matters for significant clients • Build trusted relationships with client legal teams, property teams and business stakeholders • Draft, review and negotiate leases, licences, property contracts, title documentation and other real estate documents • Advise on freehold and leasehold matters from landlord and tenant perspectives • Manage multiple matters and workstreams, prioritising deadlines and keeping clients informed • Maintain accurate tracking, file management, status reporting, financial awareness and risk escalation • Coordinate clients, counterparties, colleagues and stakeholders through completion • Exercise judgement on independent resolution versus escalation or specialist input • Support and help develop junior lawyers, paralegals and other team members • Collaborate with Dentons Helix and the wider Real Estate practice • Use AI, workflow tools, legal technology and data to improve delivery and client outcomes • Improve processes, templates, playbooks, reporting and matter management • Identify opportunities to improve or broaden client support • Contribute to Dentons Helix as a technology-enabled legal delivery model

🎯 Requirements

• Qualification as an England & Wales solicitor or equivalent • Around 6+ years’ PQE or equivalent relevant experience in commercial real estate • Strong commercial real estate experience, particularly landlord and tenant, estate management or portfolio-based property work • Strong drafting, reviewing and legal analysis skills • Ability to provide clear, pragmatic and commercially focused advice • Excellent organisational and matter-management skills • Ability to manage multiple matters and competing priorities • Proactive approach to anticipating issues, agreeing priorities, identifying next steps and driving progress • Strong attention to detail and disciplined approach to deadlines, matter administration, tracking and reporting • Confidence building direct relationships with clients, the Helix team and stakeholders • Ability to work autonomously and recognise when escalation or specialist input is needed • Curiosity about technology and willingness to use AI and other legal tools • Experience supporting, supervising or mentoring junior team members helpful but not essential • Experience in retail, restaurant, infrastructure, energy, electric vehicle roll-out or other multi-site sectors helpful but not essential

🏖️ Benefits

• Genuinely flexible, remote working model • Different working patterns may be discussed where compatible with the role, team and clients • Access to specialist expertise, training and mentoring • Inclusive culture and equal opportunities • Flexible working arrangements • Disability Confident Scheme and interview opportunity for disabled applicants meeting minimum criteria • Application adjustments or support available during the application process