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Job Description
Interim Principal Property Lawyer - Legal Services
Reference no: Merton 5245221
Pay Rate: Up to £40.16 per hour PAYE depending on experience
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 7-8 months
City: Morden, London
The Principal Lawyer would be the Practice’s specialist lead for that area of law and to manage the provision of this area of law, working across the whole practice to ensure connected disciplines are aware of key provisions and legislative change.
Key Responsibilities:
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- Take responsibility for this area of law to provide legal services to the London Boroughs that make up SLLP and any associated arm’s length delivery vehicles or additional contractors.
- The role would also be responsible for ensuring that the legal advice and legal services provided to those clients is cost effective and of the highest quality.
- To line manage a team of senior lawyers, Expert Practitioners, lawyers and legal assistants.
- Play an active part in the Practice’s senior leadership team, attending management team meetings on a monthly basis.
- Provide customer focused, high quality and responsive specialist legal advice in relation to at least one of the areas of legal expertise covered by a local authority legal team.
- Be responsible for delivering a variety of types of legal work as expected within that specialism.
- Procure external legal advisers as agreed by the process put in place by each respective partner council and to act as intelligent client in relation to any such advisers, overseeing their advice and ensuring that it protects the interests of the partner council the external legal advisers are acting for.
- Be responsible for providing creative legal solutions on a seamless basis to support service transformation and change and to meet client needs and at the more senior levels to be able to deliver advice on a broad range of areas.
- Carry an extensive case load of complex and sensitive matters and to be managing cases that would be considered to be highly complex or organisationally high profile.