Careers
Why work with us?
We are a great place to work with over 200 colleagues in 9 offices across West Yorkshire. We commit to the Chadwick Lawrence Way of working and our vision and values is at the heart of everything we do.
We handle a broad portfolio of work for both business and private clients, offering a comprehensive range of career opportunities and the promise of continual professional development and career progression.
If any of the current vacancies below are of interest, or you would like to send us your CV to, please get in touch by emailing info@chadlaw.co.uk.
We retain information provided by all candidates and ensure that the data provided by applicants during our recruitment and selection process adheres to the General Data Protection Act. A copy of our privacy notice for candidates can be found on our website here: Privacy Notice for Candidates.
Chadwick Lawrence Work Placement Scheme
Each year Chadwick Lawrence welcome a high number of students on work placements.
Our work placement scheme gives students an opportunity to come and see how Chadwick Lawrence operates and is a great way to get an understanding of how a law firm functions.
As our work placements are in high demand, we ask for applications to be made in writing enclosing a copy of an up to date CV which allows us to find out more about you and why you are interested in a work placement with us. We also ask you to provide information on preferred dates and preferred location for the placement.
Work placements are open to anyone 16 years or over.
Tasks may include:-
- Attending Court/meetings with clients (dependant on diary commitments)
- Legal research
- Drafting of documents
- Shadowing fee earners
- General administration duties
Successful Applicants will then be asked to attend a short interview to discuss the placement further.
Unfortunately we cannot offer feedback if you are unsuccessful in your application due to the high volume of Applicants.
If you wish to submit an application for a work placement then please email Placements@chadlaw.co.uk
Chadwick Lawrence Work Placement Scheme
Each year Chadwick Lawrence welcome a high number of students on work placements. Our work placement scheme gives students an opportunity to come and see how Chadwick Lawrence operates and is a great way to get an understanding of how a law firm functions. As our work placements are in high demand, ...Conveyancing Assistant
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Chadwick Lawrence is an equal opportunities employer. Selection criteria and procedures are regularly reviewed to ensure that individuals are treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities.
Practice Area: Residential Conveyancing
Experience: A minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role
Professional Level: Conveyancing Assistant
Salary Details: Competitive. Negotiable dependant upon experience
Working hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week
Location: Leeds
Chadwick Lawrence is recruiting for a Conveyancing Assistant working in its Conveyancing Department.
Candidates should be able to work as part of a team and support our experienced Conveyancers in everyday tasks such as dealing with general queries, assisting with completions, conducting searches, typing various letters, liaising with clients, solicitors, referrers and estate agents.
The successful applicant must be able to work on their own initiative and prioritise a busy workload. Good communication skills are essential. A working knowledge of SOS or other case management system is desirable but not essential.
Applications in writing to jobs@chadlaw.co.uk
We would like to take this opportunity of thanking you for your application.
Due to a high volume of applications for this role it is not possible to reply to each Applicant individually.
If you do not therefore hear from the Firm within 2 weeks of your application please presume that you have been unsuccessful.
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Conveyancing Assistant
Chadwick Lawrence is an equal opportunities employer. Selection criteria and procedures are regularly reviewed to ensure that individuals are treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Practice Area: Residential Conveyancing Experience: A minimum of 3 years experience in a simi...Solicitor – Wills & Probate
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Chadwick Lawrence is an equal opportunities employer. Selection criteria and procedures are regularly reviewed to ensure that individuals are treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities.
Practice Area: Probate
Experience: Approximately 5 years PQE
Professional Level: Solicitor
Salary Details: Competitive. Negotiable dependant upon experience
Location: Huddersfield
Job Type: Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Chadwick Lawrence is recruiting for a Solicitor to work in its Probate Department at Huddersfield.
Candidates should be ambitious and enthusiastic with approximately 5 years post qualification experience. Ideally STEP qualified or an interest in undertaking training. Candidates should be capable of working with a degree of autonomy and possess the drive to succeed. The Firm is offering an attractive benefits package with the possibility to progress and develop within the Firm.
The successful candidate will work on a range of private client matters including Wills, Lasting Power of Attorneys, Tax/Trust work and Probate. Applicants must demonstrate good team working skills and an ability to work with other probate fee earners within the Company.
The role will also include the development of a trainee paralegal in the Department and similar experience in a development type role is desirable.
The role also includes marketing of the firm’s services within the community and business generation. The ability to network and create business contacts is essential.
The successful candidate must be personable, demonstrating good communications skills and be flexible in their approach to work.
If you would like to apply for this position, please send your CV and an accompanying letter to jobs@chadlaw.co.uk
We would like to take this opportunity of thanking you for your application.
Due to a high volume of applications for this role it is not possible to reply to each Applicant individually.
If you do not therefore hear from the Firm within 2 weeks of your application please presume that you have been unsuccessful.
Huddersfield
Solicitor – Wills & Probate
Chadwick Lawrence is an equal opportunities employer. Selection criteria and procedures are regularly reviewed to ensure that individuals are treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Practice Area: Probate Experience: Approximately 5 years PQE Professional Level: Solicitor S...Conveyancing Fee-earner
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Chadwick Lawrence is an equal opportunities employer. Selection criteria and procedures are regularly reviewed to ensure that individuals are treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities.
Position: Conveyancing Fee-earner
Location: Huddersfield & Wakefield
Responsible to: Team Leader
Hours: Full-time, 37½ hours per week
Salary: £ negotiable, dependant upon experience
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Conveyancer to work within the conveyancing team. Working in all aspects of residential conveyancing work, including sale, purchase, freehold and leasehold work, applicants must be confident in dealing with their own high volume caseload and working cohesively within a team, as well a being able to work with minimum supervision. A working knowledge of Proclaim or other case management system to prepare and process letters and forms correctly is essential.
The successful applicant will be required to generate revenue through business development and be able to demonstrate strong client management skills. This opportunity would be ideal for someone with over 3 years’ technical experience within residential conveyancing and who is proactive in approaching the local market and developing new business for the Firm.
If you would like to apply for this position, please send your CV and an accompanying letter to jobs@chadlaw.co.uk
We would like to take this opportunity of thanking you for your application.
Due to a high volume of applications for this role it is not possible to reply to each Applicant individually.
If you do not therefore hear from the Firm within 2 weeks of your application please presume that you have been unsuccessful.
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Conveyancing Fee-earner
Chadwick Lawrence is an equal opportunities employer. Selection criteria and procedures are regularly reviewed to ensure that individuals are treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities. Position: Conveyancing Fee-earner Location: Huddersfield & Wakefield Responsible to: Team ...Corporate Lawyer
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Position: Corporate Lawyer
Location: Various Sites
Responsible to: Partner in Charge
Hours: Full-time (job share considered)
Salary: £ negotiable, dependant upon experience
About us
Chadwick Lawrence is a leading local law firm with a successful and growing Corporate team.
Our multi-disciplinary team works with local, national and international clients from a broad range of industries to deliver a range of specialist legal services. Our Corporate team undertakes various corporate, commercial and finance work at all levels. We pride ourselves on offering sound commercial advice; working with our clients to provide exceptional solutions for every aspect of their corporate and business law requirements.
We provide a supportive environment for career development, offering exciting challenges and opportunities for personal and professional growth. We are looking to recruit and develop talented lawyers to achieve their potential – and who will help us achieve ours in return.
About the role
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Corporate/Commercial lawyer to work within our growing Corporate team, primarily based at our Leeds Office but with scope to work in our Wakefield, Huddersfield and/or Halifax offices as may be required.
Ideally suitable for someone with 3-5 years PQE with experience of both Corporate and Commercial work although consideration will be given to applicants with experience of only Corporate work or who otherwise demonstrate the skills and experience we are looking for.
The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic and ambitious lawyer who wants to develop their technical and commercial skills further through working on a wide range of quality instructions. Your caseload will include all areas of business law, in particular share and business acquisitions and disposals, complex group re-organisations, shareholder agreements, distribution agreements, supply agreement and general corporate and commercial advisory.
Applicants should possess the following skills and experience:
- 3-5 years’ experience working in Corporate/Commercial law within a law firm or in house
- strong IT skills
- the high degree of initiative and the ability to manage your time and your workload effectively
- excellent communication skills and a desire to use these to promote the team and the firm both internally and externally
- a willingness to learn, to drive your own career progression and to be proactive in achieving this
Additional Information
If you would like to apply for this position, please send your CV and an accompanying letter to jobs@chadlaw.co.uk
Chadwick Lawrence is an equal opportunities employer. Selection criteria and procedures are regularly reviewed to ensure that individuals are treated on the basis of their relevant merits and abilities.
We would like to take this opportunity of thanking you for your application. It is not always possible to reply to each applicant individually. If you do not therefore hear from the firm within 2 weeks of your application please presume that you have been unsuccessful.
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Corporate Lawyer
Position: Corporate Lawyer Location: Various Sites Responsible to: Partner in Charge Hours: Full-time (job share considered) Salary: £ negotiable, dependant upon experience About us Chadwick Lawrence is a leading local law firm with a successful and growing Corporate team. Our multi-disciplina...Chadwick Lawrence Trainee Scheme 2020
Chadwick Lawrence is offering an outstanding opportunity for two young people to kick start their careers by becoming an apprentice with ‘Yorkshire’s Legal People’.
Young people face increasingly difficult decisions about their future. The choice of higher education with its spiralling price tag or entering the job market in an uncertain economy could shape the course of an entire career.
This is why Chadwick Lawrence has decided to provide another option and is making a different career path into the legal profession available.
If you’re sitting A levels this summer and making big decisions about your future perhaps you’d like to consider working and learning at the same time as one of a number of apprentices who will ultimately become Legal Executives.
Chadwick Lawrence will pay a salary and will also meet all education costs for the qualification, as well as provide quality hands on work experience.
All interviews will be held during the Easter break and six potential apprentices will complete a week’s work experience at one of the Chadwick Lawrence’s offices in July during which they will get a feel for the various different types of law that the firm covers.
During this week Chadwick Lawrence will be looking for candidates with the desire and determination to succeed as well as the academic skills to cope with the qualification element to the training.
From the initial six, two final candidates will be selected in August and offered a place on the two year apprenticeship programme beginning in September including enrolment on the ILEX course through a local college, gradually completing via day or evening release.
The scheme offers an attractive alternative route into the legal profession, which doesn’t involve the huge amount of debt that university now involves. It is also a perfect opportunity to get some of the real, hands-on experience that most prospective employers want to see on a candidate’s CV.
In short, an apprenticeship with Chadwick Lawrence gives the best of both worlds.
What’s in it for us?
Well there are many advantages. We’ll have the real opportunity to mould and assist in the development of some very bright people who might not have otherwise had the opportunity to pursue a career in law, as well as a tailor made recruitment programme which teaches the way we believe works best as a Law Firm. We also see it as a genuine opportunity to make a difference and to build a very strong skill base of home grown talent.
Of course we are not alone in having apprentices. Many businesses have been taking on these types of recruits for years. We are, however, one of few regionally to do this in the Legal profession and we are very hopeful that it will produce some bright and determined lawyers in due course.
Qualification:
The programme itself will involve a mixture of both work-based learning and education. All apprentices will be required to study for an ILEX Examination (Institute of Legal Executives), taking an average of four years part-time study attending either one day or evening per week.
The ILEX course details are as follows:-
Stage 1 – Level 3 Professional Law Diploma (A ‘level standard)
Stage 2 – Level 6 Professional Higher Law Diploma (Honours Degree Standard)
Upon completion of both stages of the qualification, apprentices will be required to undertake a further two years employment with the Firm, before becoming a Legal Executive fee-earner at the Firm.
Entry Eligibility:
Applications are welcomed from all students who have already gained at least 5 GCSE’s at grade B or above in an academic subject, including English and Mathematics and three or more A ‘levels at grade B or above, in an academic subject during the summer of the current year.
Applicants must reside within easy travelling distance of our West Yorkshire based offices and must be available to attend for a work experience placement at a specific office prior to being offered a position.
Benefits Package:
Successful applicants will be mentored throughout their apprenticeship by a qualified member of staff.
Apprentices will receive an annual salary based on the minimum wage, which will be reviewed on an annual basis in January.
All training fees relating to the ILEX qualification will be paid for by the Firm.
Apprentices will also receive full contractual benefits including Holiday pay, Life Assurance and eligibility to join the Firm’s Pension Scheme.
If you are interested in this position please complete the attached Application Form and return to jobs@chadlaw.co.uk with covering letter by the end of January 2020.