Real Estate Attorney Associate

Multifamily housing finance is one of the few real estate niches that never really slows down — and that's exactly why it's a smart place to be early in your career.

You're a junior real estate associate. Maybe you're doing a little of everything — some acquisitions, some leasing, a financing here and there — and you're starting to realize that being a generalist at this stage means you're not getting deep at anything.

Or you're already on the finance side, but you're stuck coordinating title and survey checklists while the senior associate handles the actual loan docs and talks to the client.

Here's what most junior associates don't understand yet: multifamily and affordable housing finance is a specialty where reps compound fast. The deals are high-volume and document-intensive, which means you close more transactions per year than associates in almost any other real estate practice. You learn the full lifecycle early. And the demand for lawyers who actually know this work — construction/perm loans, agency financing, bond deals — far outstrips the supply.

A nationally ranked AmLaw firm with one of the deepest real estate platforms in the country is adding a junior associate to its Atlanta real estate finance team. This is a national practice with serious multifamily and affordable housing volume — not a regional shop doing the occasional deal.

The work includes:

• Drafting and negotiating loan documents on the lender's counsel side of multifamily housing finance
• Construction and permanent loan transactions
• Direct communication with lenders, borrowers, and opposing counsel
• Managing transactions start to finish — affordable housing and bond deal exposure is a real plus

What you bring:

• 1-4 years of real estate finance experience
• Comfort drafting and negotiating, not just running checklists
• Bonus points for affordable housing or bond transaction experience
• Georgia bar (admitted or pending)

Why this seat:

• You specialize early in a practice where reps and demand both run high — that's how you become genuinely valuable, fast
• Direct client contact at the junior level, not five years from now
• A firm that's actually invested in its Atlanta real estate group, with a national platform behind it
• Cravath scale salary + bonus

Reach out or send your resume confidentially to [email protected] — happy to share more details on the platform and the team off-list.