Legal Executive - London, United Kingdom - Wedlake Bell

Wedlake Bell

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Wedlake Bell are recruiting a Legal Executive to join our highly-regarded Commercial Disputes practice.

Our Commercial Disputes practice advise on a broad spectrum of leading disputes matters, advising clients from smaller investors through to multinational organisations.

The Legal Executive in this team will run a high-volume caseload of disputes for a large institutional landlord client, with matters ranging from property disputes, commercial disputes, insolvencies, and debt recovery.

They will be a key client contact for general queries and reporting on current matters, as well as providing advice on the disputes process.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Legal Executive to join a busy and successful practice, running matters for one of the firm's largest clients.

You will take on a varied caseload, handling disputes at all stages through the process and practicing ADR.

Key role duties:

Managing a highvolume caseload of various commercial disputes, property disputes, insolvency and debt recovery matters for a large institutional landlord client with a significant portfolio;
Reporting to the wider disputes team; property managing agents and clients;
Maintaining up to date schedules for internal and client purposes;
Dealing with commercial and residential tenant queries;
Leading communication with the tenant and client's surveyors to progress matters;
Advising on breach of contract remedies and enforcement;
Assisting and advising on varied aspects of property management;
Providing general litigation support;
Pursuit of arbitrations;
Conduct of negotiations and formulation of formal offers in advance of litigation/arbitration
Disclosure and bundling;
Dealing with settlements without prejudice communications including Part 36 offers;
Drafting Statutory demands, bankruptcy and winding up petitions;
Conducting legal research.

Attributes:

Qualified to CILEx level 6, with significant experience handling either commercial disputes, property litigation, or debt recovery matters in a law firm. While not necessary to have experience in all of these areas, experience across multiple will be preferred;
Ideally strong experience of working with large commercial landlords and/or agents;
Strong understanding of the Civil Procedure Rules and the endtoend disputes process;
Excellent communication skills must be able to build relationships and communicate effectively across all levels of seniority and on both an internal and external basis;
Able to work well under pressure and in keeping with deadlines;
Must have excellent attention to detail;
Strong IT, organizational skills.