LDC Supervising Lawyer

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We are recruiting a lawyer to support growth and development of the commercial real estate capability within our Legal Delivery Centre ("LDC") in Leeds.

The LDC uses streamlined processes, legal technical knowhow, and cutting-edge technology to design and deliver routine or document-heavy legal services quickly and efficiently. Operating from locations in Australia, the UK and Germany the LDC primarily allocates activity to a team of Paralegals with qualified lawyers used to support service delivery.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Supervising and supporting the development of a team of Paralegals within the Legal Delivery Centre's real estate function;
• Supporting (and supplementing) the work of the Paralegals in delivering a very high quality service;
• Ensuring the team delivers to internal and external client requirements;
• Building relationships with lawyers and partners across the firm's international Real Estate practice, to identify and unlock new opportunities for LDC-driven solutions;
• Applying legal real estate knowledge and understanding of the firm's alternative legal solutions to design and implement new LDC-driven processes;
• Being the key point of contact between the LDC and the real estate practice group, including ensuring projects are sufficiently staffed, tracking progress, anticipating and highlighting resourcing issues and ensuring we provide sufficient and timely updates;
• Line Management responsibility for members of the LDC's real estate team;
• Ensuring standard ways of working are adhered to and that robust checks and quality controls are in place;
• Identifying training needs and providing coaching to ensure the team have the requisite knowledge to deliver high-quality output;
• Working with real estate lawyers and the firm's broader support network to produce (and update as required) comprehensive playbooks documenting LDC processes and responsibilities;
• Assessing opportunities to improve operational processes, documentation and training; and
• Conducting performance reviews and supporting individual growth in accordance with line management responsibility.

About you

• Qualified Solicitor (preferably England & Wales)
• Minimum of 4 years prior experience connected to commercial real estate activity (including acquisitions & disposals and/or asset management activity)
• Able to manage and work well with people at all levels;
• Highly organised;
• Clear and effective communicator;
• Highly professional, with a dedication to exceeding expectations.

The department / practice group

The Legal Delivery Centre provides innovative solutions to support the firm's high end advisory services.

The function works as an extended part of the legal team, dealing with activities that are best performed by a specialist, process-centric operation. Legal professionals (paralegals), combined with the LDC's qualified lawyers and legal technology tools, deliver a transparent service to agreed timescales, yielding very high-quality outputs.

The LDC operates from offices in Germany, Leeds and across Australia. All combine to service the requirements of the international business.

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-engagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.

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