Agricultural Solicitor Taunton

Location: Taunton, Somerset, South West
Salary: Competitive
Job Type: Permanent

Job Ref. Number:MM046

Job Title: Agricultural Solicitor
Location: Taunton, Somerset
Salary: Competitive

The Company:

The firm has over 50 Partners and some 450 total employees. They have a London office as well as a number of offices throughout the South West.
Their clients range from international companies to start ups and from the public sector to private individuals. The firm’s lawyers are recognised for providing an innovative, pragmatic, plain-speaking and results-focused service and benefit from working in a supportive environment in which everything the firm does is geared towards achieving their clients’ objectives.

The Role:
The team consists of property lawyers and litigators with extensive experience of agricultural issues and the specialist knowledge to provide expert advice. The firm’s lawyers are actively involved in organisations such as the NFU, CLA and the Agricultural Law Association and clients include farmers, contractors, agricultural supply companies, landowners, tenants, share farmers, farming companies.

Work handled includes

* Farming Contract disputes
* Farming Partnerships
* Agricultural Tenancies
* Notices to Quit
* Succession
* Agricultural Land Tribunal
* Arbitrations
* Quota and Single Payment Issues
* Animal Health
* Contract Farming
* Share Farming
* Farm Sales and Purchases
* Prosecutions / Defence
* Boundary, Covenant and Easement Issues

Clients concur that the lawyers show “considerable personal experience of agricultural tenancy law and dealing with the general running of landed estates.”
Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession, 2008 Edition

The Successful Candidate:

The firm are looking for an experienced Agricultural solicitor with a non-contentious background, capable of marketing to an established and expanding client base from the firm’s Taunton office.

Knowledge of rural and/or commercial property is essential.

NB: PQE levels are illustrative only and serve purely as a guide to candidates. Emerson Chase will welcome applications from individuals with more or less relevant experience than stated since such candidates may well be of interest to our clients.

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