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Criminal Solicitor

Employer
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Location
Blackburn
Salary
£32000 - £40000 per annum + Good Package
Closing date
28 Sep 2018
Reference
EH09844

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Practice area
Crime
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

An established firm with the Head office in Blackburn are looking for an experienced Criminal Solicitor to join the existing department. The firm are currently steadily expanding their Criminal department and are looking to appoint a new solicitor with a minimum of 12 months Magistrates experience.

In order to be considered you must have the required 12 months minimum experience and must be confident with this. You will undertake criminal defence work at, provide legal assistance, represent defendants before the Magistrates court and preparation of their cases. You will be expected to work independently within the department and there also is assistant support for this position.

The department currently has a Head of Department and a team of 5. The firm have been established for over 7 years and have grown from 2 people to 24 full time staff, areas of practice include Crime, Family and PI.

In terms of progression, the firm are open to sponsoring qualifications for high achieving candidates and due to the size of the firm you will be able to take on additional responsibilities and long term opportunities.

Please contact Elle Heeley, Recruitment Consultant, to discuss this role in more detail or apply through the vacancy for immediate consideration.

Douglas Scott are legal recruitment experts and the UK's leading law firms trust us with their legal vacancies. You can therefore apply for our North West Commercial legal jobs with confidence. We are a regulated recruitment consultancy and will discuss this role and seek your approval before submitting an application directly to the decision maker.

Please see our website, www.douglas-scott.co.uk, for more North West Commercial legal jobs.

Company

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment are multi-award winning legal recruitment experts.

Our business – put simply – is to remove the pain points candidates may otherwise experience on their journeys.
Sure, we act for legal professionals of all levels making lateral moves, taking steps up the ladder or looking for contract legal opportunities.
And yes we can boast a network of connections that spans nationwide private practice, the UK’s in house legal departments and now the Middle East, Asia and the Far East.
But we are the only REC and APSCO affiliated legal recruitment specialist with an ISO9001 accredited quality management system and the Investors In People Gold Standard award.
And by externally validating our day to day activities in the wider business community we have been able to place customer experience at the heart of our business proposition.
Which means people like dealing with our team – a very experienced, settled and happy bunch they epitomise the Douglas Scott brand personality and will demonstrate a genuine interest in you and your career.      

 

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0161 233 6360
Location
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
No1 Spinningfields
1 Hardman Square, Spinningfields
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3EB
GB

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