Real Estate Associate

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title : Real Estate Associate, 1-4 years

Reports to : Practice Group Leader

FLSA Class : Exempt

Job Description

Gammage & Burnham is a Phoenix-based midsize firm with a highly regarded real estate and land use group. We are seeking an associate attorney to join the Real Estate Group.

We are experts on a broad range of real estate matters, such as acquisitions and dispositions of real property, planning for and developing homebuilder projects, retail shopping centers, office buildings, master-planned communities, multifamily projects, and industrial parks.

Gammage & Burnham is seeking an associate with 1-4 years' experience with transactional real estate experience.

Qualifications / Skills :

• Top academic credentials.
• Ability to manage real estate closings.
• Review title commitments and surveys.
• Draft and negotiate purchase and sale agreements and leases.
• Distill and analyze information and communicate effectively with other attorneys and clients.
• Detail-oriented but also able to determine material issues and propose solutions
• Can effectively work as part of a team (both as part of the client's team and with other attorneys) on multiple complicated matters simultaneously.

We are united by a common desire to do outstanding work in a collegial environment. We work within and across practice areas, doing some of the most exciting real estate work in Arizona.

Everyone here is vital to our team, and we rely on each team member to practice at the highest level. This firm offers first-class training and succession opportunities.

Work-life balance is emphasized, and the firm is known for its collegiality and reasonable hours requirements (true 1800 hours).

This is a partner-track position.

We offer competitive compensation, significant bonus potential, and a great benefits package.

Travel

Travel minimal.

Work Environment & Physical Demands

This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

While performing the responsibilities of the position, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the person in this position will encounter.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will work in a professional, fast paced office environment that may require additional hours to complete work.

These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the position.

If an employee is unable to perform the essential functions of the position, Gammage & Burnham, PLC will evaluate whether a reasonable accommodation can be made to enable the employee to perform the described essential functions of the position.

Generally, due to the nature of this office position, while performing the responsibilities of the position, the employee is required to talk and hear.

The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers, to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and to stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and / or move up to 10 pounds, occasionally lift and / or move up to 25 pounds. Vision abilities required by the job include close vision.