Real Estate Supervising Lawyer

Location
:
Leeds (hybrid working)

Salary
: £95,000 to £125,000 (dependent on experience)

Experience
: 7+ years’ PQE (Transactional Real Estate)

If you’re a senior Real Estate lawyer who gets genuine satisfaction from developing others, improving quality, and helping a team run smoothly, this is a rare opportunity to step into a dedicated Supervising Lawyer role within a busy Leeds Real Estate practice.

This position is designed to strengthen supervision, training and consistency across the team. The focus is on coaching and supporting junior lawyers (particularly 0 to 3 PQE), reviewing work, building judgement and confidence, and helping partners deliver excellent client service, rather than running a full personal caseload.

Our client is recruiting a Supervising Lawyer to provide ad hoc supervision across live matters, raise drafting quality, and support structured development across the Leeds transactional real estate team. You will be a key part of the team’s learning culture, with scope to contribute to wider know-how, precedents and training initiatives over time.

• Supervising, teaching and coaching junior lawyers (particularly 0 to 3 PQE) across landlord and tenant, property management, sales and purchases, development and client account work

• Reviewing drafts, giving clear feedback, and helping junior lawyers build legal judgement, commercial awareness and confidence

• Providing targeted supervision across live matters to support quality, consistency, prioritisation and deadline management, without carrying a personal caseload

• Working closely with partners and senior lawyers to identify knowledge gaps and training needs, and to embed a strong learning culture

• Promoting effective use of knowledge resources and legal technology to support efficient delivery

• Providing ad hoc fee-earn ing support to the Leeds Real Estate team as required

Additional scope (depending on experience and interest)

• Maintaining and enhancing precedents, playbooks, drafting guidance and checklists to drive consistency and efficiency

• Answering fee-earner queries across the wider team on technical points, including Land Registry processes and transactional queries

• Designing and delivering training sessions, workshops and practical know-how updates on core real estate topics and legal developments

• Capturing learning from significant matters and helping embed it across the team

• Qualified Solicitor (England and Wales) with 7+ years’ PQE (or equivalent) in transactional real estate

• Strong experience in investment, landlord and tenant, management and development work

• Excellent technical and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex law into practical, commercial guidance

• A genuine interest in developing others, with experience supervising, coaching and providing constructive feedback

• Confidence working with stakeholders at all levels, from trainees through to partners

• Interest in knowledge sharing, training and continuous improvement

• Experience in corporate real estate work, energy and projects matters, or PSL/knowledge lawyer or training roles

• Interest in using legal technology to support supervision, knowledge and team development

• Hybrid working (typically 2 days from home per week, depending on role and location)

• Competitive financial package, including discretionary bonus (performance dependent)

• Private medical insurance, with options to upgrade and add family cover

• Pension with matched employer contributions (up to 5%)

• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection cover

• 25 days’ annual leave, rising to 27 with service, plus the option to buy or sell up to one week per year

• Sabbatical leave options (subject to eligibility)

• Health and wellbeing support, including 24/7 employee assistance programme and counselling

• Wellbeing subsidy towards gym, sports membership or wellbeing apps

• Cycle to Work scheme and interest-free season ticket loan

• CSR day for volunteering (1 day per year) and payroll giving scheme

• Discounts and rewards portal, plus peer and manager recognition schemes

Full-time, permanent role based in Leeds, with hybrid working typically 2 days from home per week (depending on role and location).