Legal Assistant X2 - London, United Kingdom - Triumph Consultants Ltd

Triumph Consultants Ltd

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

What's involved with this role:

Temporary Legal Assistant x2

Reference no:
Brent

Pay rate:
£17.48 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 36 Monday - Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 3-4 months

City:
WEMBLEY, London

Hybrid working, 2-3 days per week office attendance (this includes Court attendance)

The purpose of this role is to provide advice and draft correspondence and documents to support Lawyers and Senior Lawyers.

To prepare cases for hearings and to process a heavy caseload and to provide advocacy in routine cases. The role will predominantly cover disrepair cases.

Key responsibilities:

Responsible for a case load of routine legal work.
Assist and support other members of staff.
Prepare bundles for court hearings in accordance with Practice Directions.
Keep up to date with new and proposed legislation, new cases, and other developments and to review and give basic advice as required.
Keep more senior staff informed of any important issues arising which may affect the satisfactory progress of cases.
Conduct searches of the Probate Registry, Land Registry, Office of Public Guardian, and others as required.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Other "Essential Requirements" - Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

Law degree or substantial experience of working in a legal department.

Experience & Knowledge:

Significant experience of administrative work in an office environment dealing with correspondence, filing, preparing documents and using IT systems.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Knowledge of the law and practice relating to one or more of the following areas: Children's Social Care, Community Care, Civil and Criminal Litigation, Education, Employment, Housing, Contracts,Regeneration & Property.

Skills & Abilities:

Good presentation skills, including the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in writing and orally.
Ability to provide services in a manner which is consistent with the Council's equal opportunities policies.
Accurate data entry skills.
Good organisational skills.
Ability to prepare cases for hearings and to process a heavy caseload.
Ability to undertake routine litigation and to prepare cases for hearings.
Ability to undertake advocacy in routine cases.
Ability to analyse information, evaluate evidence, solve problems and present solutions at an appropriate level.
Ability to provide advice and present arguments in a confident, articulate and persuasive manner.
Ability to develop and maintain good working relations with clients and work collaboratively corporately and departmentally.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).

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**Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please