Real Estate Litigation Associate

Are you an experienced real estate litigation lawyer with strong built environment expertise?

Would you like to join a busy and diverse team where you'll work on high-quality matters for a broad client base in a close-knit, collaborative environment?

Burges Salmon are offering multiple opportunities for both Associates/Solicitors from 0-4 years PQE to join our leading team of property litigation lawyers, based in Bristol but advising in relation to clients and property across England & Wales.

In this role, you can expect complex and high value work on behalf of household name national and international clients.

The Team

Real Estate Disputes Team are known for their pragmatic approach and ability to offer alternative real estate dispute resolution methods and solutions to clients. We collaborate with other dispute resolution and non-contentious real estate specialists within the firm, to provide the highest quality advice on real estate disputes for our clients.

You'll provide advice to clients on risk/asset management at a pre-action stage as well as advising on the full spectrum of commercial and complex residential property related disputes, including mediations, arbitrations and contested litigation. We provide real estate disputes advice to commercial property institutions, banks, investment companies and high net worth individuals.

You will also be exposed to a wide variety of work and clients, with all members of the team having the opportunity to work across the full breadth of sectors and legal specialisms within real estate disputes. We consider that this diversity of experience not only results in a more varied and interesting working environment but ultimately helps our lawyers to develop a broader skillset and greater flexibility of approach.

We are ranked Tier 1 by both Chambers and Legal 500.

What others say…

‘‘The team is friendly, very approachable and offers concise, easy-to-understand legal advice in a practical manner, making it easy to understand and assess the risk/reward of pursuing the particular point in question.' – The Legal 500 (2025)

‘Experienced, knowledgeable and available.'– The Legal 500 (2026)

Key clients include:

Network Rail, L+R, The Greater London Authority, Severn Trent Water, Pennon Group, Revantage Real Estate, John Lewis Partnership, Virgin, Tritax Big Box REIT, The Post Office, a wide variety of Government Departments and a number of global investment banks

The Firm

Our working environment is professional yet progressive, where quality of work and quality of life go hand-in-hand. Our collaborative approach to how we do business is totally refreshing. It's what attracts some of the best legal minds in the industry and it's why our people love working here.

We are proud to have received a Platinum Investors in People Accreditation and have been named the RollOnFriday ‘Best Law Firm to Work At 2026' for the fifth consecutive year.

We operate a hybrid working model that gives our lawyers flexibility in how they work.

What you'll need

• Relevant exposure to working on high quality real estate disputes
• To be a strong team player, with excellent interpersonal skills
• Able to manage a complex and varied workload effectively
• Be self-motivated, willing to learn and can work autonomously
• Must be a SRA or Law Society of Scotland registered lawyer

Benefits

Click here for a full overview of our brilliant reward package 

We're committed to finding the right person for this role and we're open to discussing flexible working, full time or part time working patterns.

It's important to us that our organisation represents the diverse community in which we operate and we encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and identities. As a Disability Confident employer we will provide a fully accessible recruitment process.

Get in touch!

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, please contact Katie Harding -  0117 9027286 / [email protected] - for an informal and confidential conversation