Welcome to our careers page
This is where we post the most current career opportunities we have on offer. These opportunities will be based in one of our three offices, located in Shirley, Sheldon or Birmingham City Centre.
Benefits Sydney Mitchell can offer you:
- Working for an extremely well established legal firm - in operation for over 260+ years
- Group Stakeholder Pension Scheme with Scottish Widows. Access to a tax efficient salary sacrifice option
- Healthcare plan - Financial assistance towards a range of healthcare including optical, dental and counselling
- 25 days holiday (2 to be taken at Christmas/New Year) plus public holidays
- Flexible holiday purchase / sale scheme
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CURRENT JOB VACANCIES
Property Litigator
Sydney Mitchell is an award-winning, business orientated law firm who work with a host of widely recognised clients and organisations. Our litigation team is regularly ranked highly within the Legal 500 publication with one of our partners being ranked a leading partner and one associate being ranked a leading associate. We are looking to recruit a strong, ambitious property litigation solicitor to join the team at our office in Birmingham city centre.
The ideal candidate will have experience in:
- Contentious Landlord and Tenant matters acting for both tenant and landlord in residential and commercial property matters
- Boundary Disputes
- General property disputes
- TOLATA claims
- Professional Negligence claims relating to property
- Commercial /general Litigation experience would be useful in assisting the commercial litigation team where necessary
And skills in:
- Using Word, Excel, pdfDocs (or similar) and a case management system.
- Advocacy when required.
- Working as part of a Team and under pressure.
- Building on the excellent reputation already established and help to develop their offering.
- Taking an active part in firm wide business development.
- Providing an excellent standard of client care and be able to manage client expectations.
The role involves significant client contact and therefore someone with strong communication and client care skills is a must. You should be able to work under supervision, meet tight deadlines and as part of the dispute resolution team.
The successful candidate should ideally be between 2 – 5 years' PQE. This level of experience has been given as an approximate guide for applicants but we are happy to consider the applications of candidates who fall outside of this level but who have the relevant knowledge/experience, together with the enthusiasm for this particular role.
The role is based in the firm’s Birmingham office. Flexible and hybrid working options can be considered.
How to apply
Please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter to a.edmonds@sydneymitchell.co.uk
Work Experience
Students often write to us with a CV in the hope of securing work experience to support their studies or as part of their career choice at school. We are grateful for this interest and note each one. As a firm we have resolved to ensure that we offer the best training options and therefore only have a limited number of placements available.
Currently we do not have any work experience opportunities available.
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