Interim Head of Legal (Property) – In House
Substantive Legal Experience
Substantive Legal Experience
London
Legal Staffing
May 27, 2026
Interim Head of Legal (Property) – In House
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior property lawyer who enjoys combining strategic influence with hands-on delivery in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
The Role
Reporting directly to the Managing Director and sitting on the Senior Management Team, you will lead across legal, compliance, and governance matters, ensuring continuity and momentum across the business.
Key responsibilities include:
Why Join LOD?
People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.
All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.
We can offer:
LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.
We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.
LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.
London (Hybrid: 3 days office / 2 days WFH)
Full-time | Immediate Start
We’re looking for an Interim Head of Legal (Property) to join our client, a leading property investment and development group, to support them for at least 6 months. This is a critical role providing senior legal leadership during a period of transition, supporting a substantial, residential-led portfolio.Full-time | Immediate Start
This is an excellent opportunity for a senior property lawyer who enjoys combining strategic influence with hands-on delivery in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
The Role
Reporting directly to the Managing Director and sitting on the Senior Management Team, you will lead across legal, compliance, and governance matters, ensuring continuity and momentum across the business.
Key responsibilities include:
- Acting as the senior legal advisor on property and commercial matters
- Providing both strategic guidance and day-to-day legal support
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of property and commercial agreements
- Leading and developing a small in-house legal team
- Advising on governance, regulatory compliance, and best practice standards
- Supporting a for-profit Registered Provider with legal and strategic input
- Managing property transactions, licences, consents, and enquiries
- Advising on disputes, escalated complaints, and complex issues
- Senior qualified lawyer with significant experience in residential property portfolios
- Strong grounding in commercial property matters
- Proven expertise in property disputes, compliance, and governance
- Experience working with or alongside Registered Providers (highly desirable)
- Comfortable operating at both strategic and operational levels
- Strong leadership capability with experience managing teams
- Confident engaging with senior stakeholders and board-level audiences
Why Join LOD?
People come to us for a whole range of reasons – they might be looking for time for their interests, for work alongside other projects, or just want a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.
All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.
We can offer:
- Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
- Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
- Training and know-how, as well as support from our dedicated HQ Team.
- A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.
LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.
We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.
LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.