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Housing Law Solicitor

Employer
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Location
England, London, West London
Salary
£30000 - £35000 per annum + Good Package
Closing date
17 Apr 2019
Reference
BT52060

Job Details

Job Title: Housing Law Solicitor
Experience: At least 2 years PQE
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary Expectation: £30k - 35K +

Location: West London

The successful candidate must have an excellent academic background and a wide range of public funding experience within housing law including all types of possession proceedings, disrepair claims and counterclaims, obtaining Injunctions in harassment and unlawful eviction claims, Homelessness Judicial Review Claims and s.204 Appeals to County Court. Advocacy experience is required as most hearings (excluding Trials) will be conducted by Instructing Solicitors.
We are looking for candidates with experience of working independently with a high level of competence.

The successful candidate will need experience dealing with vulnerable clients, including legal help and legal aid cases and will need to ensure compliance with Legal Aid Agency contract requirements.

The department currently has 2 solicitors and 4 trainees - each team of 1 solicitor and 2 trainees is responsible for hitting team billing targets. The solicitor would be responsible for managing and developing the 2 trainees working in their team.

Douglas Scott is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

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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