Associate - Real Estate Practice
Linklaters
- Bruxelles
- CDI
- Temps-plein
- Develop deep legal knowledge in real estate and related laws.
- Analyse and review research for accuracy, relevance and completeness and present arguments concisely and clearly.
- Consider implication of advice to your client, negotiate with good judgement and anticipate counterarguments.
- Draft all sorts of real estate agreement (share purchase agreement, asset purchase agreement, lease, long-term lease, right to build; etc.) and supervise the production of less complex documentation.
- Keep abreast of developments in the business world, learn how clients’ businesses work and actively share insights gained from client interactions.
- Establish positive relationships with the client and build trust.
- Identify opportunities to deliver additional products and services and use network across practices and offices to deliver the whole firm to your clients.
- Plan work effectively, identifying individuals’ responsibilities, priorities and deadlines.
- Supervise and monitor matters, setting high standards for quality of work and responding positively to changing demands.
- Delegate work effectively, demonstrating good judgement when assigning and managing work.
- Develop knowledge of key efficiency levers, e.g., effective matter management, use of alternative resourcing, and assign resources appropriately.
- Monitor progress of matter and manage your client’s expectations so there are no surprises.
- Bring people with diverse skills, interests and viewpoints together.
- Make yourself available, acting as a sounding board for colleagues, calling out inappropriate behaviour and facilitating flow of communication between team and other parts of the firm.
- Inspire confidence and respect of others through all interactions.
- Constantly seek to improve the way we work and drive value to clients and encourage experimentation and innovation.
- Identify gaps in the firm’s knowledge and learning, take initiative to develop necessary precedents and share knowledge and learning with others.
- Develop, facilitate and present technical training.
- Develop junior colleagues through day-to-day coaching and meaningful feedback and involve colleagues in new opportunities to develop their knowledge and skills.
- We are looking for a bright confident lawyer with at least 3 to 4 years’ experience in real estate to join our firm.
- You have French as your mother tongue or an equivalent command of the French language with an excellent knowledge of English. The mastering of the other national language is a real plus.
- You have a strong analytical sense, excellent drafting skills, are commercially aware and solution-oriented.
- You are a team player and have the ability to operate throughout complexity and ambiguity staying focused on best outcomes and client satisfaction.
- You’re curious and have a point of view, and you’re creative enough to challenge what the future looks like, based in a firm which is always striving to be consistently excellent, admired and at the cutting edge of the global legal market.
- You have a first-class Belgian law degree, possibly combined with additional education abroad.