Lead Lawyer
- Employer
- Public Law Project
- Location
- London (Greater)
- Salary
- £Competitive
- Closing date
- 20 Jan 2019
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- Practice area
- Public law
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Public sector/Charities
Job Details
The Lead Lawyer will be based within PLP’s casework team, supervising other lawyers and caseworkers, and assisting with the delivery of the organisation’s strategy and goals. PLP delivers its strategy adopting a multidisciplinary approach combining casework, research, publications and training and events. Within our current 5-year strategic plan, we have adopted five ‘focus areas’ for our work: benefit sanctions; Brexit and the rule of law; the online court; legal aid; and access to judicial review. The Lead Lawyer will need to be confident in developing and delivering casework strategies in two or more of our Focus Areas, working with a multidisciplinary team from across our organisation, and liaising with the Lead Lawyer: Legal aid and members of the Senior Management team. The successful candidate will be a confident and creative lawyer, able to communicate at many levels and have experience and excellent skills of building and leading teams.
Company
The Public Law Project (PLP) is a national legal charity which aims to improve access to public law remedies for those whose access to justice is restricted by poverty or some other form of disadvantage.
Within this broad remit PLP has adopted three main objectives:
- increasing the accountability of public decision-makers;
- enhancing the quality of public decision-making;
- improving access to justice.
Uniquely for an organisation of its kind, PLP undertakes research, policy initiatives, casework and training across the range of public law remedies.
- Website
- http://www.publiclawproject.org.uk/
- Telephone
- 02078431260
- Location
-
150 Caledonian Road
London
London
N19 5NG
GB
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