Fee Earner, Residential Property

About Us

We are the North East’s trusted independent law firm. Since 1876, we’ve guided generations of people through business and life – the highs and the lows, the milestones and the challenges.

For well over a century, we’ve delivered expert legal services with trust, reliability and care. And it’s a responsibility we’re proud to continue for generations to come.

By combining proven expertise with a personal approach, we resolve legal matters with confidence, clarity and care—achieving the best outcomes for your future, together.

Growing further together.

When we say we put people first, we mean it. That’s why we’ve created a flexible, friendly and collaborative place to work where people are supported every day.

Alongside a range of benefits such as life insurance, retail discounts and uncapped bonuses for fee-earner roles, we are committed to helping you develop personally and professionally. Just like our clients, our success is your success.

About the Role

We have a new and exciting opportunity for two motivated and experienced Fee Earners to join our successful Residential department at both our modern open-plan offices at Stockton and Newcastle city centre. The successful candidates will be joining our largest department made up of 33 colleagues, who work across our two office sites. Our Residential department has an excellent reputation and prides itself upon its ability to deliver a first-class service to our clients.

The duties will be varied and rewarding and will include:

• Managing a mixed case load of sale, purchase and Buy to Let residential properties, leasehold matters, help and right to buy schemes, new build property purchase and sales, mortgages/re-mortgages, shared ownership and affordable housing, and transfer of equity.
• Providing effective communication and excellent customer care to clients at each stage of their journey.
• Taking an active role in business development, to support building professional relationships and growing our client base.

These roles are open to candidates seeking full or part time working hours. We also operate a fantastic flexible working scheme, to help our employees to balance the demands of their work and home life. Speak to us about your ideal work pattern!

About You

The ideal candidates for this role will have:

• A minimum 3 years’ experience in a fee earning role. Whilst ideally candidates will be a qualified Solicitor / Legal Executive / Licenced Conveyancer, we will consider non-qualified candidates who meet our experience requirements.
• Prior experience of managing a busy and varied residential property caseload.
• Knowledge of the legal aspects of residential transactions, including Freehold and Leasehold, new build transactions including reviewing TP1s, and using the Land Registry Portal and lender portals would be advantageous.
• Experience of purchasing property via corporate entities would be beneficial.
• Commercial awareness
• Excellent communication skills
• The ability to travel between the firm’s office sites in line with business needs

To apply, please complete and submit the form below and upload a copy of your up to date CV or send a copy of your up to date CV to recruitment@jacksons.law.

If you have any questions about the role or would like to receive a full job description, please contact our HR Team on the above email address or call 0333 210 1876.

Please note that salary expectations will be discussed at interview and will be dependent upon your skills and experience.

We look forward to supporting your new career at Jacksons!