Description

Stark & Stark has an opening in our Hamilton office for an experienced Commercial Real Estate Associate to join our team. The ideal candidate will be self-directed and detailed-oriented with the ability to organize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The right candidate will have the extraordinary opportunity to continue their professional development in a challenging, but collegial, environment.

Responsibilities

• The Associate will work with project teams on purchase and sale transactions, leases, and commercial financing transactions. 
• Assist with assigned matters from inception through closing, including drafting and negotiating primary and ancillary documents for real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financing, development, leasing, joint ventures and similar transactions.
• Review and analyze due diligence and conduct legal research.
• Correspond and communicate with clients’ business and legal personnel, and coordinate with attorneys across other practice disciplines.

Qualifications

• At least five (5) years of commercial real estate experience.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation, written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills with high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Superior drafting skills.
• Strong analytical thinker, with a business mind.
• Excellent academic record.
• Ability to independently manage and supervise paralegals and due diligence processes.
• Demonstrated ability to work as part of a team and to interact directly with clients.
• Licensed to practice in the State of New Jersey.

 Benefits

Stark & Stark is committed to the health and well-being of its staff members. The firm offers a full range of benefits, including traditional major medical and hospitalization coverage, a prescription plan, a dental plan, a vision plan, life insurance, accidental death, and dismemberment coverage, a profit sharing, and a 401(k) plan, paid vacation, and paid holidays. 

Equal Opportunity Employer

Stark & Stark’s policy is to make employment decisions based on merit, ability, and competence. Except where required by law, employment practices shall not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or staff member’s race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or any other characteristic provided by law. Qualified minorities, females, veterans, and attorneys with disabilities are encouraged to apply. It is also our policy to provide a work environment that is free of harassment of any kind, including that which is sexual, age-related, or ethnic.

Mansfield Rule

As part of its continued efforts to actively recruit and advance the recruitment, development, and promotion of diverse lawyers, Stark & Stark is participating in Diversity Lab’s Midsize Mansfield Rule initiative. The Mansfield Rule is named for Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the United States. It measures whether law firms affirmatively consider diverse lawyers for hiring, advancement, and significant leadership roles.

Under this initiative, we strive for a candidate pool consisting of at least 30% women, attorneys from underrepresented racial and/or ethnic groups, lawyers with disabilities, and/or LGBTQ attorneys. The Mansfield Rule initiative also includes a commitment by Stark & Stark to be transparent in our internal governance, particularly with our selection guidelines and job descriptions for firm management roles and committees.