Lease extension & Enfranchisement Lawyer

  • LJ Recruitment
  • Salisbury, Wiltshire
  • Jul 21, 2026
Full time Legal

Job Description

Job Title: Specialist Lease Extension & Enfranchisement Lawyer

Location: Salisbury, Andover, Amesbury or Fordingbridge offices (Hybrid, remote & onsite working available)

Salary: Competitive & DOE

Our Leasehold Team

The team is one of a small number of genuinely specialist lease extension teams nationwide, and is possibly the largest, most specialist team of its type. They handle work throughout England and Wales for both freeholders and leaseholders. The team continue to significantly increase our work, as the team's excellent reputation spreads. The team deal with around 350 cases a year and have helped around 10,000 people extend their leases or buy their freehold.

The work

The job involves a caseload of lease extension, enfranchisement and right to manage cases. It does not involve contentious leasehold work - they have 2 specialist property litigators who handle that and to work closely with the leasehold team.

The successful candidate

have a minimum of 3 years' experience of dedicated lease extension, enfranchisement and right to manage work

be a leasehold extension and enfranchisement specialist with extensive experience

have demonstrable experience of supervision and training of junior staff - this is a key part of this role. The successful candidate will need to enjoy playing this role and be able to prove they have done so in the past

have a desire to continue growing their specialist experience and knowledge

have the confidence and the ability to react to change whilst working within a pressurised environment

have excellent standards of client care and great communication skills

have a history of strong billing

have the ability to delegate efficiently

be an enthusiastic team player, with great people skills

have good organisational and excellent IT skills

Full or part-time

The job is available ideally on a full-time, but we will also consider part-time candidates.

Flexible and home working

The job is available either on a remote working basis, or hybrid based at one of our 4 branch offices - Salisbury, Andover, Amesbury and Fordingbridge.

Candidates who are able to spend some time in the office will have priority for this particular role, because of a need for some degree of training and supervision of juniors.

Salary

Market rate - dependent on the successful candidate's experience