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Job Title: Solicitor 2 – 10 PQE

Hours: Full Time, permanent

Location: Bath, hybrid.

Job Reference: CWS446

OVERVIEW

Top Ranked Legal 500 firm.

This opportunity is ideal for a solicitor with a genuine interest in rural affairs and experience in agricultural or rural property law. You’ll join a specialist team advising a diverse range of clients including farmers, landowners, estates, and agribusinesses.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage your own caseload of agricultural and commercial property matters from start to finish, including sales, purchases, lettings, and licences involving farmland, rural buildings, and estates.
• Advise on land development and diversification projects, such as promotion and option agreements, and renewable energy schemes.
• Draft and negotiate a range of agricultural property agreements, with support from paralegals and collaboration across the team.
• Provide legal input on estate management, including succession planning, AHA and FBT tenancies, and rights of way.
• Work closely with colleagues in other departments to advise clients on regulatory, commercial, and compliance issues affecting rural businesses.
• Build and maintain strong, long-term client relationships with landowners, farmers, and estate managers.
• Stay informed on legal and policy developments in agricultural, land use, and environmental law

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• Qualified solicitor (England & Wales), ideally with 2+ years’ PQE agricultural/ rural property land law
• Strong technical knowledge of rural property matters
• Excellent client-facing and communication skills
• A genuine interest in countryside affairs and rural communities
• Experience working with farming businesses, estates, or landowners is highly desirable

BENEFITS – one of the best on the market

• Up to 27 days holiday + bank + option to buy and sell + special occasion leave (birthday/wedding etc)
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave.
• Enhanced employer pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical and dental insurance + Healthcare cashplan + income protection
• Various other perks and discounts including legal services, gym discounts, shops, season tickets etc.
• Many more.

For more details please contact: cait.woodrow-smith @ Simpsonjudge.co.uk

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Legal Services

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