At Seyfarth, we understand that great people are the key to our success, and we provide the opportunities to match. If you join us, you’ll work with state-of-the-art technology in a friendly and professional environment, and we will continue to invest in your professional development. If you want the freedom to grow at a firm that is invested in your future, keep reading. THE OPPORTUNITY We have an incredible opportunity for a Real Estate Counsel with 10+ years of leasing and development experience. The ideal candidate will have (i) extensive first chair role, national leasing and subleasing experience for both landlords and tenants (with tenant side, retail leasing a requirement), (ii) Real Estate development experience (with retail experience a priority, including some shopping center development and reciprocal easement agreement transactions), and (iii) a broad general Real Estate background, including the ability to handle acquisition, disposition, finance and other general portfolio management matters for several client teams. The Counsel role is a salaried position open to candidates looking for full time employment who may not seek to be in a partner-track position, but who want to continue to do sophisticated real estate and leasing work for larger client teams with immediate and material direct client involvement and responsibilities. Chicago area candidates a strong preference, but will consider qualified candidates located near any of our U.S. national offices. YOU HAVE: 10+ years of real estate experience, specifically in leasing and development. Top law firm experience with excellent academic credentials. Strong analytical skills. Polished personal and verbal communication skills, including strong negotiation and client relation and management abilities. Outstanding written communication and complex drafting skills required. Strong work ethic, including experience managing a large number of transactions concurrently. Outstanding deal and time management skills, including the ability to handle a heavy work load efficiently and to manage junior attorneys and paralegals. Desire to work on and become an integral part of several client teams. WHAT WE PROVIDE: As one of the largest real estate practices in the United States, Seyfarth’s National Real Estate group of more than 130 attorneys has helped clients close some of the most notable transactions over the last several years, and is recognized for bringing creative structures to sophisticated commercial real estate matters and helping our clients achieve their goals. Seyfarth’s real estate practice has a tremendous breadth of expertise and is routinely recognized within the industry, praised for being “fully attuned to the needs of the client” by Legal 500. Legal 500 has also recognized Seyfarth’s real estate practice as a national leader in the real estate industry for nine consecutive years (2011-2019). Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News ranked Seyfarth among the top 15 most powerful real estate practices in the nation (2017), and The Best Lawyers in America named 25 of Seyfarth’s real estate attorneys as leaders in the field (2019). We provide competitive salary and benefits at all levels. For real estate attorneys, we provide comprehensive training, CLE initiatives, Seyfarth University, industry credentialing, and hands-on learning by working side-by-side with our partners. We invest in our attorneys to advance in their careers by providing opportunities for substantive client contact as well as significant involvement in case strategy and management. We are also proud to be an influential leader in inclusion and diversity. The firm has been recognized for our efforts by the Human Rights Campaign, Working Mother magazine, and the Minority Corporate Counsel Association. We are Mansfield 3.0 certified, a reflection of our ongoing commitment to advancing candidates from underrepresented groups. MORE ABOUT SEYFARTH: With more than 900 lawyers across 17 Offices, Seyfarth Shaw LLP provides advisory, litigation, and transactional legal services to clients worldwide. Learn more about The Seyfarth Experience at www.seyfarth.com/careers/. Seyfarth Shaw is committed to equal employment opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. We value and encourage diversity and solicit applications from all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, change of sex or transgender status, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. To achieve our goal of equal opportunity, Seyfarth Shaw maintains an affirmative action plan through which it makes good faith efforts to recruit, hire and advance in employment qualified minorities, females, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. If you would like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please click EEO is the LAW and the Supplement poster through the following link: https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/migrated_files/employers/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf Seyfarth is an EO Employer – M/F/Veteran/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity. . This position may be based in Atlanta, GA 30309. This position may be based in Boston, MA 02210. This position may be based in Charlotte, NC 28202. This position may be based in Chicago, IL 60606. This position may be based in Houston, TX 77002. This position may be based in Los Angeles, CA 90067. This position may be based in Los Angeles, CA 90017. This position may be based in New York, NY 10018. This position may be based in Sacramento, CA 95814. This position may be based in San Francisco, CA 94105. This position may be based in Seattle, WA 98104. This position may be based in Washington, DC 20004.