Construction Solicitor
Leeds – £75,000 - £100,000
Role: Construction Solicitor, Top-tier national firm
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Salary: £75K to £100K DOE
If you're a Construction Lawyer who loves variety, wants proper responsibility, and is ready to step into a genuinely career-defining role-keep reading.
Our client, a highly ranked national firm with a seriously strong Real Estate & Construction platform, is looking to bring a 4+ PQE lawyer into their growing team. This is a chance to join a practice known for its depth of expertise, cross-sector work, and amazing internal culture.
What you'll be doing
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Salary: £75K to £100K DOE
If you're a Construction Lawyer who loves variety, wants proper responsibility, and is ready to step into a genuinely career-defining role-keep reading.
Our client, a highly ranked national firm with a seriously strong Real Estate & Construction platform, is looking to bring a 4+ PQE lawyer into their growing team. This is a chance to join a practice known for its depth of expertise, cross-sector work, and amazing internal culture.
What you'll be doing
You'll work on a broad mix of mainly non-contentious construction matters, with the opportunity to dip into contentious disputes too should you wish. Expect early access to high-value work, direct client contact, and the autonomy to run matters with confidence.
Your role will cover:
- Advising on, drafting and negotiating amendments to JCT, FIDIC, NEC and associated collateral warranties, bonds and guarantees.
- Drafting and negotiating consultant appointments (JCT, RIBA, RICS) and bespoke subcontracts.
- Due diligence on warranty/TPR packages for commercial tenants.
- Construction input into AFLs and licences to alter.
- Drafting and negotiating fit‑out contracts, PCSAs, novation agreements and LOIs.
- Contract risk reviews for contractors and consultants during tenders.
- Advising on disputes (termination, insolvency, payment issues, EOT, defects).
- Supporting adjudication, litigation, arbitration and mediation work.
- Drafting and advising on term maintenance agreements.
Why this team?
This is a construction group with a brilliant reputation for non-contentious work and strong capability across contentious matters. They advise big names in marketing, retail, hospitality, leisure, commercial development, and large-scale residential. Think HQ relocations, office fit‑outs, and major developments - with access to the kind of client base that elevates a CV fast.
You'll be joining a close-knit, experienced team working alongside real estate, regulatory and disputes specialists across the firm.
What they're looking for:
- 4+ PQE in Construction (non-contentious bias but mixed background welcome).
- Excellent drafting, analysis and communication skills.
- Someone commercial, proactive and responsive - the team values people who own their work.
- A strong interest in business development and helping grow the firm's northern presence.
- Experience advising tenants on office moves is a real plus.
- A team player who supports colleagues and is hungry to keep developing.
- Willingness to travel to other offices regularly.
- High-quality, high-profile work from day one.
- Real progression with clear benchmarks and structured career development.
- Exposure to major clients and meaningful responsibility early on.
- A supportive, collaborative team with senior people who genuinely invest in your growth.
- Competitive salary and a strong benefits package.
Huw Flanagan-Roberts is a Recruitment Consultant at Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment, having joined the team under a year ago. With a background in sales management and a design degree, Huw has a unique combination of skills that he uses to build strong relationships with clients and candidates in the legal sector. Inspired by his personal connection to law through his marriage to a corporate lawyer, he is comfortable navigating legal terminology and helping candidates and clients in their career journeys. Outside of work, Huw grew up in Wales and speaks Welsh almost fluently, a skill he enjoys using when visiting his homeland.
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Job Spec:
- Area of Law: Construction Law
- Type: Solicitor / FILEX
- Salary: £75,000 - £100,000
- Term: Permanent
- Location: Leeds
- Reference: 1326280
