Agricultural Litigation Lawyer

Ready to work with high-profile clients and learn from experienced partners in a specialist and highly interesting sector?  Looking for responsibility from day one in a fresh-thinking firm with industry-leading insight?

At Burges Salmon, you'll have the opportunity to grow your expertise, make an impact and take the next step in your legal career.

The Team

Our contentious agricultural lawyers form a specialist group within our wider Dispute Resolution department and play a key role in the firm's multidisciplinary Estates and Land practice.

The team advises landowners, farmers and others across the sector, working closely with our private client and real estate teams, as well as colleagues in related areas such as planning, environment and energy.

We provide contentious and specialist non-contentious advice to a wide range of clients, including some of the country's most high-profile landowners. Our work covers agricultural tenancy law, rural property issues, partnerships, and related contentious trust and probate matters.

With a national practice we work regularly with professionals across the sector.

What others say…

“They are all experts in their field – they understand agriculture and landed estates”  Legal 500, 2025

“The team have a vast amount of experience.  They have been there and done that, to help guide you through.”  Chambers & Partners HNW Guide, 2025

Key Clients

Clients include major rural landowners such as The Crown Estate, the Ministry of Defence, the Church Commissioners for England, local authorities, charities, trustees, and private owners and occupiers.

What you'll need

• Relevant experience in contentious legal services, ideally within agricultural, rural property or landed estates work, alternatively a property litigation background with a strong interest in developing specialist rural expertise, as specialist training and development will be provided
• A genuine interest in the rural sector
• The ability to manage a varied and complex workload effectively
• SRA-registered lawyer status

The Firm

At Burges Salmon, you'll do high-quality work, take on responsibility early and learn from approachable leaders in a genuinely collaborative culture. It's a place to grow your expertise, build strong client relationships and shape a career that works for you.

We are proud to have received an Investors in People - Platinum Accreditation and have been recognised as RollOnFriday's Best Law Firms to Work for the fifth consecutive year

We also offer flexible working options through our hybrid working model.

Benefits

Click here for our reward package and find out more about the benefits of a legal career with Burges Salmon here.

We're open to flexible, full-time or part-time working patterns and welcome applications from all backgrounds. As a Disability Confident employer we provide a fully accessible recruitment process.

Get in touch!

For more information or a confidential conversation, please contact Katie Harding on 0117 902 7286 or at [email protected].