Legal Assistant - Worcester, United Kingdom - Colbern Limited

Colbern Limited

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Worcester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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Legal Assistant
Worcester
Contract
£12.70 per hour

Our client is looking for an experienced Legal Assistant.

Based within the Adults, Education and Debts Team in Legal & Governance.

To provide support to a solicitor with the assistance of a legal clerk and others to ensure provision of legal advice and to be responsible for a personal legal caseload in particular in relation to civil litigation, debt recovery and enforcement across all Directorates of the County Council.

Key Duties, inter alia:

To provide a comprehensive debt recovery service to the County Council handling a wide range of highly complex commercial, contractual consumer and statutory debt recovery cases with mínimal supervision, on behalf of all of the Council's Directorates, including:
Recovery of Adult Social care debt including residential and non-residential care fees
Special knowledge and expertise in debt recovery practice acting for the Council as a Creditor in complex probate cases or where the debtor lacks mental capacity.
Enforcement of Section 106 Town & Country Planning Act 1990 agreements by way of Statutory Injunctions
Statutory Demands and Bankruptcy claims for commercial debts
Undertake enforcement proceedings against Judgement Debtors.

The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV.

Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities.

Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer.