Solicitor - Housing Litigation

Are you a passionate Housing Litigation Solicitor, Barrister, or Chartered Legal Executive Advocate looking to take the next step in your career? Our Manchester office is expanding, and we're looking for a skilled legal professional to join our dynamic and supportive team.

At Anthony Collins Solicitors, we're proud to advise and represent housing associations, local authorities, charitable landlords, and co-operatives across England. You'll play a key role in delivering expert legal advice and advocacy that makes a real difference to the communities we serve.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll manage a varied and rewarding caseload, including:

Securing and defending anti-social behaviour injunctions

Defending disrepair claims, and supervising legal assistants

Prosecuting under the Environmental Protection Act

Handling possession claims, including Equality Act and mental capacity defences

Resolving residential leasehold and shared ownership disputes

Providing housing management advice, carrying out policy reviews, and delivering legislative updates

Your Team

You'll be part of a close-knit, ten-person team based Manchester, collaborating closely with colleagues in our 17-strong Housing Litigation team across Birmingham and Manchester. We pride ourselves on being supportive, approachable, and highly skilled.

Why Us?

Hybrid working: Split your time between remote working (three days) and our newly refurbished Manchester office (two days)

Court experience: Regular advocacy opportunities to develop and maintain your skills

Comprehensive support: Full IT, secretarial, and PA support to enable you to focus on your legal work

Professional development: Access to leading technical training and a clear progression path within the firm and across sector teams

A Purpose-Driven Role

At Anthony Collins Solicitors, we're more than just a law firm - we're a social purpose firm. We're committed to transforming lives, communities, and society through the legal work we do. If you're looking to join a firm where your skills have real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

About the candidate

For this role the candidate we desire the following experience:

• Experienced in housing law or residential leasehold litigation, with a solid understanding of the legal landscape
• Confident in advocacy, and enthusiastic about representing clients at hearings
• A collaborative team player with effective delegation skills and a supportive approach
• Highly organised and proactive, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines with ease
• An excellent communicator, committed to delivering clear, practical, and commercially sound legal advice

About the firm Why Join Us?

You'll be part of a welcoming, values-led organisation that puts people and communities at the heart of everything we do. We offer:

• Opportunities to shape strategy and drive innovation in early careers.
• A supportive HR team that values collaboration, growth, and creativity.
• 25 days holiday, 2 gift days at Christmas.
• The opportunity to give back and have 3 days available for social purpose volunteering.
• Newly refurbished office with an onsite café.
• Free access to an on-site gym.

Anthony Collins Solicitors is a specialist law firm with a clear purpose - to "improve lives, communities and society". For over 40 years we've been successfully combining market-leading legal expertise with a commitment to excellence and long-term relationships underpinned by a strong set of values.

What makes Anthony Collins Solicitors distinctive, beyond simply being a sector-specialist law firm, is our people and the values we share. We're extremely proud of the calibre of people that we attract; people who are inspired by our values, motivated by our vision and work with our clients to positively influence the society and communities we are building together.

Anthony Collins Solicitors is a committed Equal Opportunities employer promoting equality of opportunity. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.