Join Pearson Solicitors

The Commercial Property Department at Pearson Solicitors and Financial Advisers require an experienced commercial property solicitor with 5 years+ PQE to join the award-winning law firm.

Due to increased demand for our commercial services, we are looking to expand the department by appointing a commercial property solicitor to complement our highly regarded team.

This permanent role offers a competitive salary and an extensive list of staff benefits, which can be viewed below.

Experience Required:

The ideal candidate will have experience in the following:

• Acquisition & disposal of commercial property
• Drafting and negotiating commercial leases and ancillary documents
• Drafting and negotiating contracts and transfers
• Secured lending
• Managing client relationships
• Establishing and maintaining new business relationships with potential clients, referrers, and the business community

Requirements:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Strong organisational abilities
• Experience in using a Case Management System
• Capable of working both independently and collaboratively in a team
• Self-motivated with a strong drive for success
• Willingness to represent the firm in the business community
• Ability to manage your caseload efficiently
• Contributing to team efforts to devise strategies for achieving client goals
• Contributing to firm growth through marketing and business development
• Being a mentor to junior team members

Salary & Package:

• Competitive salary
• Automatic enrolment onto the company’s pension scheme
• Excellent staff benefit package
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements considered

How to apply:

Please send your full CV and current salary to Director and Practice Manager: joanne.ormston@pearsonlegal.co.uk

The Employment team are looking for a dedicated Employment Solicitor (preferably 4 to 8 years PQE) to join our award-winning law firm.

Our highly regarded Employment Department is ranked in The Legal 500 directory, and we are seeking an Employment Law Solicitor to join the expanding team.

This permanent role offers a competitive salary and an extensive list of staff benefits.

The employment team is located at our North Manchester office in Hollinwood, ideally located just off Junction 22 off the M60 with nearby tram links. There is free onsite parking fitted with some electric charging points and an onsite café located within the adjacent business centre.

The ideal candidate will have experience in the following:

• Advising both employers and employees
• Employment Tribunal claims, including unfair dismissal, sex, race, and disability discrimination
• TUPE
• Redundancy and transfer of undertakings
• Negotiating settlement agreements
• Restrictive covenants and breaches of confidentiality
• Workplace disputes
• Employment contracts
• Staff handbooks

Requirements and details of the role:

• Working directly with the partners and other lawyers
• Performing substantive case-driven research and legal analysis
• Drafting employment tribunal submissions, correspondence, and other documents
• Negotiating with opponents
• Contributing to team efforts to devise strategies for achieving client goals
• Contributing to firm growth through marketing and business development
• Being a mentor to junior team members

Salary & Package:

• Competitive salary
• Automatic enrolment onto the company’s pension scheme
• Excellent staff benefit package
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements considered

How to apply:

Please send your full CV and current salary to Director and Practice Manager: joanne.ormston@pearsonlegal.co.uk or to Partner Alan Lewis at alan.lewis@pearsonlegal.co.uk

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Serious Injury Solicitor to join our expanding multi-serviced law firm.

This is a full-time permanent role within our Clinical Negligence team who are based at our Oldham office.

The ideal candidate will be 5 years PQE+ and have a proven track record of dealing with serious injury cases.

Requirements and details of the role:

• Early assessment of claims for liability to ensure each claim is viable
• Managing a complex caseload from inception to conclusion
• Experience in Pre and post issue work including experience in sorting and summarising medical records, instruction of appropriate experts on breach of duty of care, causation, condition and prognosis, drafting Letters of Claim, advising on Letters of Response, Instructions to Counsel, valuation of claims, issue and service of proceedings, costs budgeting, advocacy at Case Management Conferences in the County Court, settlement negotiations including drafting and advising on Part 36 settlement offers and general management of cases to Trial.
• A good understanding of ATE Insurance policies/premiums and disbursement funding models is preferable.
• Experience of Microsoft Office and case management systems as well as dictation software

Salary & Package:

• Competitive salary
• Automatic enrolment onto the company’s pension scheme
• Excellent staff benefit package
• Friendly and supportive team environment
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements considered

How to apply:

Please send your full CV and current salary to Director and Practice Manager: joanne.ormston@pearsonlegal.co.uk

Experienced corporate transactional lawyer required to join our growing corporate and commercial team.

The ideal candidate should have at least 7 years’ PQE, with a proven track record of running their own deals and who would prefer to work 3 or 4 days per week.

General corporate experience (shareholders’ agreements, share buybacks, group formations and the like) is also important.

Package:

• Competitive salary
• Automatic enrolment onto the company’s pension scheme
• Excellent staff benefit package
• Supportive team environment

Candidates who would prefer to work part time basis will also be considered.

Remote working can be easily accommodated. Please contact Keith Kennedy for further details.