Based in Lewes

Full time

About Us

The Firm has two offices with this role being based in the Lewes, East Sussex office, undertaking work for both the Lewes and London offices. The firm is Legal 500 and Chambers ranked and is modern, responsive and approachable with an excellent reputation.

The Firm’s lawyers are known as specialists in their fields and because of its reputation for excellence it routinely attracts applicants from the top international London firms. The Firm is able to offer a modern and friendly working environment and most importantly, a comfortable and sustainable work life balance without compromising on the quality of the work or the clients.

The Firm has 18 partners and a team of around 100 and covers areas such as corporate and commercial, employment, real estate, private client and dispute resolution.

Our Litigation teams are based in both Lewes and London and cover both commercial and personal litigation. In addition to commercial litigation and business disputes, the teams also deal with property litigation, environmental health and safety litigation, contentious trust and probate disputes and related litigation and debt recovery.

Our clients include local authorities, government agencies, landed estates, receivers, national companies, charities, trustees, high net worth individuals and their businesses.

Our approach is always to find practical solutions that make commercial sense and are cost effective for our clients with the aim of avoiding Court proceedings as far as possible.

Our team is ranked highly in Chambers High Net Worth Guide and Legal 500 and our lawyers also have excellent personal rankings across various directories. We receive excellent feedback from our clients, industry partners and referrers:

“Knowledgeable, commercially-minded and effective.”

“Stand out lawyers in this practice area.”

We strongly believe in taking the time to get to know our clients – really listening and understanding their business and personal goals, and what matters most to them.  We think ahead and give the best advice not just for now but for the future. Our clients return to us and recommend us highly. Creating and nurturing strong professional partnerships and referrer relationships is also key to our new business development in corporate and commercial matters.

The role

To provide accurate, comprehensive and high quality service to assist the partners in their client work.

This is a very hands on and varied role with lots of opportunity for the right candidate to get valuable first-hand experience in some complex and interesting matters whilst working alongside senior fee earners. The successful candidate will also be involved in business development and will be expected to develop client and referrer relationships either by themselves or as part of the team.

Your qualifications

You should be able to demonstrate the following personal attributes:

• Qualified solicitor with around 2 – 4 years’ PQE
• Experience in dealing with commercial litigation matters
• Professional with a client focused approach
• Good time management skills with the ability to prioritise workloads
• Good IT skills
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Enjoys working as part of a team, but self-motivated and able to work independently too
• Flexible, resilient and the ability to adapt to change
• A practical, commercial outlook

Working for Adams & Remers

We fill our teams with people who are professional, motivated and reliable and share our values and our determination to deliver the best possible experience for our clients.

To help you develop yourself and your role, we offer a friendly working environment with opportunities for training and development to help you strengthen your skills and expertise.

We have a strong focus on wellbeing and provide you with excellent support and resources.  Our friendly, welcoming team regularly organise social events to keep us connected.

The salary for the position is circa £50,000 depending on experience.  We offer a very competitive benefits package including private medical insurance, cash plan offering discount vouchers, money for medical treatments such as scans, physiotherapy, dental treatment, sight tests and glasses and more, discounted gym membership, virtual GP service and fitness and nutrition health checks.

Applying

If you are interested in the role please send your CV and covering letter to Alison May (Senior HR Advisor) alison.may@adamsandremers.com