Due to growth, our Chambers recognised Commercial Property team are looking for a bright and client-facing Chartered Legal Executive or Solicitor, ideally at the relatively early stages of their post-qualified career, to join our Bristol office.

About us

As a Top 100 UK law firm with over 600 employees, we're known not just for the quality of our work, but just as importantly to us, for the quality of our people.

Our healthcare team has a formidable reputation both regionally and nationally and, as it has been for many years, is ranked Band 1 in the 'Partnerships Medical' section of Chambers and Partners within the UK as a whole.   

You will be working within our fantastic team of property healthcare lawyers, led by Bristol based Partners, Ben Willis | Healthcare Partner in Bristol and Gemma Pouncy | Commercial Property Partner in Bristol

The role

You'll enjoy using all the skills you've acquired to date, including landlord and tenant matters, site acquisition, funding and ownership issues. However, this time you're advising a client base that truly values your help and will value your ability to propose solutions in a straightforward way. As such, you'll find the work to be rewarding and relish the fact that no two days are the same.

The team work closely with the innovation team and are amongst the firm's leaders in harnessing tech opportunities.

Here at VWV, we're renowned for ensuring our lawyers gain excellent exposure to client work, from the very start of their career, and in this way, you'll feel valued from your very first day.

We pride ourselves on being more than just lawyers. We believe we are part of the client's team and seek to balance the client's commercial objectives with their legal requirements at all times.

About you

First and foremost, you'll be a bright and engaging individual with strong grounding in commercial property and an equally strong sense of commerciality. You'll ideally have gained exposure to a wide variety of commercial property work and are now excited by the prospect of specialising more in one area. Whilst some exposure to healthcare work would be preferred, we certainly don't expect you to have worked in this sector. If you're bright, enthusiastic and willing to learn, then we'd love to hear from you.

As a team, we pride ourselves on developing long term working relationships with our clients. Due to the technical nature of some of our work, strong communication skills and the ability to empathise with our clients, are qualities that will stand you in good stead for this role.

You will be a Chartered Legal Executive or qualified Solicitor, at the early stages of your post qualified career with experience specialising in Commercial Property. You do not need to have specific experience in any particular areas, but you should be resilient, self-motivated and willing to learn.

Where will I be working? 

At VWV we have a truly unique and engaging culture that we hold dear. We work hard but we also love to have fun and we recognise that it's the social interaction between us that really shapes our culture. We operate a hybrid model of working and you will be based at our refurbished Bristol office. In this way, you'll benefit first-hand from our warm and friendly culture as well as facilitate cross referral opportunities from your colleagues in other teams. We are of course happy to discuss any specific requirements of hybrid working with candidates on an individual basis.

Why choose us?

There are so many reasons to explore VWV further. We're known for our friendly and welcoming culture where teamwork and collaboration are key. We're committed to your growth with our bespoke Learning Academy, offering structured career-level programs across core business areas to prepare you for promotion opportunities and career advancement. 

We're striving to be an inclusive employer of choice, to create a workplace environment that promotes and values diversity, where everyone, regardless of background, can reach their full potential.  During the assessment process we've supported a range of reasonable adjustments in the past though we continue to learn and evolve to create the best possible candidate experience for everyone.  If you'd like to discuss what's possible, even if you're not sure what you might need, please reach out to our recruiter, who'll be happy to talk through options and share what's worked well for others.

How to apply

Making the next career move is one that can feel immensely daunting, if you have any questions on the role or firm before you apply, please contact me, Mark Steff, Talent Acquisition Advisor (Lawyers), in complete confidence at msteff@vwv.co.uk and I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

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