Associate Attorney

🔹 Job Title - Associate Attorney – Commercial Real Estate

🔹 Location - Jacksonville, FL

🔹 Job Type - Full-Time | Hybrid

🔹 About the Opportunity :

A well-established, mid-sized law firm with a strong presence across the Southeastern United States is seeking a Commercial Real Estate Associate Attorney (1–3 years) to join its growing Jacksonville office.

This is a unique opportunity to work on high-impact affordable housing and multi-family development projects, offering meaningful work, hands-on deal experience, and direct collaboration with experienced attorneys in a supportive, team-oriented environment.

🔹 Key Highlights :

• Work on complex commercial real estate and housing transactions.
• Exposure to affordable housing, tax credit, and public-private development projects.
• Hands-on experience early in your career (not siloed work).
• Collaborative, growth-focused team environment.
• Opportunity to work with lenders, developers, and public agencies.

🔹 Key Responsibilities :

• Assist in closing commercial real estate and multi-family housing transactions, including drafting and reviewing contracts and transactional documents
• Support due diligence efforts, including title, survey, zoning, easements, and resolving title-related issues
• Prepare and respond to title objection letters and conduct final reviews of title and survey materials
• Coordinate with title companies, surveyors, lenders, and other stakeholders throughout the transaction lifecycle
• Conduct legal research, support regulatory compliance and tax credit financing, and maintain organized transaction and closing documentation

🔹 Qualifications :

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• 1–3 years of experience in commercial real estate or related transactional work
• Licensed in Florida or Georgia (or ability to obtain) with strong legal writing, analytical, and organizational skills
• Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities; exposure to affordable housing or real estate finance is a plus

🔹 Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between [$150,000 – $160,000 annually]. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

🔹Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [life insurance] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [2 to 3 weeks of paid time off]

🔹 Why Consider This Opportunity?

This role offers the chance to build a strong foundation in commercial real estate and affordable housing law, gain meaningful responsibility early, and grow within a respected and expanding practice.