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Specialise Early, Stand Out, and Grow Your Career: Join Our Real Estate Disputes Team

Are you a Junior Disputes Solicitor ready to make your mark? Take the next step in your career by specialising early in a dynamic, fast-growing area. Here’s why specialising in real estate disputes could be your perfect career move:

Develop a High-Demand Skillset

Specialising early in real estate disputes allows you to develop an in-demand expertise that sets you apart from your peers. In a field that combines law with real-world problem solving, you’ll gain a skillset that’s relevant, valuable, and respected in the industry.

Work with Household Names

Get involved in quality, high-profile work that has real impact. As part of our real estate disputes team, you’ll work on matters for leading clients across various sectors, gaining invaluable experience and exposure to some of the biggest players in the market.

Build Your Reputation Internally and Externally

Specialisation isn’t just about honing technical skills. It’s about making your mark and becoming a trusted advisor. By focusing on real estate disputes, you’ll enhance your reputation, both inside the firm and with clients and industry professionals alike.

Expand Your Network with Key Industry Contacts

Real estate disputes don’t just involve lawyers – you’ll build relationships with surveyors, valuers, and other professionals within the real estate sector. This is your chance to grow a strong, wide-ranging network that will benefit you for years to come.

Solve Complex Problems and Add Real Value

Real estate disputes offer a rewarding challenge. You’ll help clients navigate complex issues, solve problems, and achieve their goals – all while developing your ability to add real value to each matter.

Fast-Track Your Career to Partnership

Specialising early in a growing field can significantly accelerate your career trajectory. As one of our senior partners put it: specialising in real estate disputes gave me the platform to stand out, grow my career, and achieve partnership. Now, we're looking for bright, ambitious junior lawyers like you to join us and help build on that success.

Be Part of a Supportive, Growing Team

We believe in collaboration and mentoring. Our real estate disputes team is close-knit, supportive, and experienced – providing the ideal environment for you to thrive and build your career with guidance from senior colleagues.

About You

Join Our Growing Team
We’re looking to expand our real estate disputes team across a number of our offices and want to speak with ambitious junior solicitors who could be based in Cheltenham, Worcester, Birmingham, Cambridge, or the Thames Valley.

Location isn’t a barrier – our team handles high-quality work from all across the UK, and we’re open to speaking with candidates regardless of location or limited experience in this specific sector. What matters to us is your ambition and desire to specialise in a fast-paced, rewarding area of law.

As part of our team, you’ll be mentored and managed by leading real estate disputes partners, who will empower you to become one of the future stars of the practice. We are committed to investing in your development and offering you the platform to achieve great things.

About Us

Benefits of working with us:

• Private Medical Insurance

• Sight tests / Glasses discounts

• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme

• 28 days annual leave (plus public holidays)

• Bonus scheme

• Electric vehicle scheme

• International secondments for 0-5 PQE
• Happy People / Perks at Work benefits portal
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Life Assurance
• 1/3 gym membership contribution
• Flu vaccinations

Is HCR the smart move for you?

HCR suits people who love a challenge and want to work in an environment where careers thrive on the back of hard work and personal merit. Our people enjoy feeling part of something bigger than themselves, and whilst our clients drive our development, it is our people who bring their energy, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurial mindsets together to solve problems and help our clients succeed.

Why HCR people love their jobs

Our people tell us they enjoy working on good quality, interesting matters from a wide variety of our clients, because they get the experience they want to develop their careers. We will give you responsibility early, the mandate to make things happen and we’ll back your good ideas. Our “Passion for People” lives and breathes every day throughout the firm as our peoples’ energy and sense of fun create a warm environment in which to thrive.

What career progression will HCR offer you?

HCR’s growth constantly creates opportunities for people who want to go places and make a difference, your career plan can become part of our growth plan. At HCR you can expect to work with friendly, energetic, ambitious people, who love getting stuck into a client problem, and enjoy celebrating a good outcome. Our people value the sense of community provided by the individual personality of each office and the collegiate approach across all our service and sector teams.

What does HCR believe, achieve and stand for?

As a Times Best Law firm, among the UK Top 60, we provide the full range of services that you would expect to organisations, business leaders and individuals. However, in our mission to give everyone the opportunity to experience a different kind of legal service we take an entrepreneurial approach. We’re flexible and responsive to the needs of our clients, delivering the best outcomes for them. We have more than 800 lawyers and support staff, including more than 150 partners, and have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel quality mark in recognition of our compliance and client care standards.

With ten offices in England and Wales our well-established presence stretches from west to east, ensuring clients can access a full-service legal offering no matter where they’re located. We’ve expanded significantly in Birmingham, Cardiff and the Thames Valley, and our merger with Hewitsons resulted in a full service regional hub being established in the heart of the Waterside innovation area centre of Northampton. Our London and Cambridge continue to grow apace.

With solid connections in the communities we work in, and a track record of delivering legal advice to businesses and individuals throughout the areas we base ourselves in, our clients continue to value our approach to providing legal advice, in the way they need, when they need it.

As HCR is an equal opportunities employer, we don’t just accept differences, we celebrate them. We want to attract a diverse and ambitious workforce that reflects all backgrounds and skills to create a workplace that is supportive and inclusive, recognises and nurtures talent, and which works together to achieve the best outcome for our clients. We are privileged to be an armed forces-friendly organisation.

We also want you to achieve your absolute best during the recruitment process. Please let us know of any changes we can make at any point that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.

A note for recruitment agencies – The HCR Resourcing Team is responsible for recruitment across the firm, and where possible will use direct hiring methods. We do work with a Preferred Supplier List, and where appropriate, we will release vacancies to those agencies who we deem most appropriate to support us. Only those agencies will be invited to submit candidates via our recruitment portal. Any speculative or unsolicited CVs sent to any employee or Partner of HCR will not be considered an introduction, and no fees will be applicable. Furthermore, we retain the right to pursue these candidates without query of ownership

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