Real Estate Associate Attorney - Midlevel to Senior
About the role
Ashurst Perkins Coie LLP, a leading international law firm and Am Law 50 firm, is seeking a midlevel to senior real estate associate to join its Real Estate practice group. The position is open to the Phoenix, San Francisco, and Seattle offices. The practice focuses on acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, construction and development, financing, and real estate investment across a wide variety of property types and industry sectors, including an active and growing data center practice encompassing colocation transactions, hyperscaler leasing, and powered land acquisitions and dispositions serving hyperscalers, institutional capital, and infrastructure developers. The firm has been listed on Fortune’s Best Places to Work for 24 consecutive years and is recognized for creating a workplace culture where employees can grow and reach their full potential.
Responsibilities
- Draft, manage, and negotiate complex transaction documents.
- Interface directly with clients and counterparties.
- Mentor and train junior associates in the group.
- Anticipate issues, structure solutions, and deliver work product that reflects genuine care and precision.
- Build relationships with a variety of clients, colleagues across the firm, and counterparties.
- Commit to in‑office collaboration.
Requirements
Four to six years of relevant transactional real estate experience is required.
Skills
- Familiarity with AI tools — including large language models, document automation, and workflow orchestration — preferred.
- Ability to draft, manage, and negotiate complex transaction documents.
- Ability to mentor and train junior associates.
- Strong business judgment and ability to think beyond the transaction.
- Client‑obsessed, analytical, organized, responsive, entrepreneurial, and ambitious mindset.
- Ability to build relationships with clients, colleagues, and counterparties.
- Commitment to in‑office collaboration.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus.
- 401(k) plan.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Personal medical and parental leave.
- Up to ten paid holidays.
- Family care benefits.
Pay
Compensation range: $310,000 to $390,000 annually, depending on qualifications and experience.