Senior Residential Property Lawyer
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Location: Hybrid (min. 2 days / week in London office)
Employment type: Full-time
About Farringdon
Conveyancing in the UK is overdue for reinvention. Transactions take too long, lawyers spend too much time on admin, and clients often feel left in the dark. It’s fragmented, under pressure, and struggling to cope with growing complexity.
Farringdon is a CLC regulated conveyancing law firm designed from the ground-up around AI to bring speed and transparency to the conveyancing process. Our clients are home buyers and sellers and we partner with estate agents and other intermediaries who introduce clients to us. We launched in May 2026 with our first cohort of lawyers and referral partners and We launched in May and are already helping hundreds of people move home.
The team and technology behind Farringdon is what makes it special. Farringdon is a spin-out of Orbital, one of the world’s leading Legal AI companies, focussed exclusively on property law. Our leadership team have run law firms and technology businesses at scale. Our founding engineering team built the AI technology that powers title checking and reporting for 1 in 10 residential property transactions in the UK today. Our expert property lawyers have decades of conveyancing experience and have collectively completed thousands of transactions.
Read our founder’s launch announcement here and recent trade press coverage here to learn more about the vision, story and team behind Farringdon.
The Opportunity
We’re looking to hire a Senior Residential Property Lawyer (Conveyancer or Solicitor) who is excited about the way AI is shaping law to join our rapidly growing team.
This is high-impact, high-agency role. Your mission is to set the standard for quality legal work on a small caseload, whilst collaborating with our specialists in legal technology to build systems that amplify your expertise, speed things up, keep clients informed and guard against risk.
What You Will Do
Legal excellence: Run a small, high-quality caseload end-to-end across freehold and leasehold sales and purchases, including some shared ownership and help-to-buy transactions. Caseloads will gradually build as AI systems are implemented, allowing us to grow sustainably and help more clients without compromising on quality.
Supervision and technical leadership: Help set, support and enable supervisory structures and processes to assure conveyancing technical excellence, to include contributing to and being accountable for conveyancing legal practice policies and procedures.
Time dedicated to technology: Work closely with product, engineering and operations to test, refine and adopt AI-driven conveyancing policies and workflows. You will help identify bottlenecks, sources of re-work and recurring risk themes, and translate these into practical process improvements that shape the law firm of the future.
Access to cutting-edge technology: Although you won’t have the traditional support of an assistant or paralegal, you will have access to a cutting edge AI assistant designed to progress transactions, undertake work and make your life easier — and you’ll help build and refine it.
Responsibility: With support, technology and guidance where you need it, you are trusted to deliver excellent client care and legal work with limited supervision, and to exercise sound judgement on when to slow down, escalate or seek additional review to protect client outcomes and the firm’s reputation.
What We Are Looking For
Essential
You are happy to step outside your comfort zone, you’re a regular AI user (no expertise needed) who’s excited about how AI is changing legal practice. ”keen to get stuck into new ways of working.
A highly experienced conveyancer or solicitor with very strong technical legal knowledge, client skills, and compliance awareness. We typically target 10+ years experience for senior legal roles, but we prioritise capability over rigid thresholds or qualifications.
Experience of supervising others as well as personally running transactions start to finish, ideally including complex leasehold (e.g. Building Safety Act impacted), shared ownership and help-to-buy.
Experience of identifying and developing policies and procedures to assure AML and general conveyancing compliance, best practice and matter progression.
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment, iterating processes as we go.
Wants to build, not just bill: motivated by shaping a better model for conveyancing and improving how work gets done.
What We Offer
This role is ideal for someone who wants to work with intensity at the frontier of AI to solve a problem everyone involved in the home buying and selling industry can relate to. You’ll enjoy meaningful ownership and a broad remit, and work alongside a high calibre team that have experience in the industry and AI, and care deeply about the problems Farringdon is solving.
Compensation above market rate, commensurate with experience 💰
5% matched employer pension 💷
Private medical insurance or monthly allowance for wellbeing 🏋️
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) 🏖️
Financial support for CPD requirements ⚖️
£1k personal and professional development budget (e.g. AI courses etc) 📚
Vibrant central London offices with panoramic views and a great atmosphere 🏙️
Regular team lunches and socials, plus free snacks, drinks and barista coffee ☕
Indoor and outdoor ping-pong tables! 🏓
Our Interview Process
Stage 1 : A 30 minute online interview to understand your background, experience, and skill set.
Stage 2 : An assessment exploring your technical knowledge, judgement, problem-solving and approach to client care.
Stage 3: A 60 minute interview with our Head of Legal and COO to discuss your assessment and explore your technical expertise in more depth.
Stage 4 : A final in person interview with our Founder/MD to get to know you and explore how you’d fit into the team and our culture.
Farringdon is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds.