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Reviewing lawyer - Motoring Criminal Defence (Private client)

Employer
National Motoring Lawyers
Location
Nationwide
Salary
• PE: £80k-£100k (comprising file prep £36k - £42k + fixed fees for advocacy up to £1000 per trial)
Closing date
31 Mar 2021

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Practice area
Crime
Contract type
Locum/Contract, Freelance
Hours
Full time
PQE
Not applicable
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

JOB TITLE:

Advocate lawyer - Motoring Criminal Defence (Private client)
PQE REQUIRED:

0+ PQE
 

LOCATION:

National
 

PACKAGE:

File preparation £36k to £42k according to experience. Additional remuneration for advocacy with fixed fee per hearing £200 to £400 (£1000 per trial for exceptional candidates). Projected earnings £80k to £100k 

 

THE ROLE:


A role has become available for advocate lawyer in criminal defence motoring law with a niche in drink driving cases.
You will work self-employed under a panel agreement. The role will most suit freelancers as duty solicitor or agency work for other firms can be carried out alongside the position.
You will work as a team alongside a reviewing lawyer and a caseworker. We cover all Courts in England and Wales.


THE CANDIDATE:


You must be a qualified Solicitor or Barrister with experience as a criminal advocate. All applicants must have a practicing certificate.
We provide training on procedural defences in motoring law cases and strategies for dealing with prosecution case management failures.
Applicants will have the ability to deal robustly with judicial hostility towards procedural defences and believe in the right of the client to be acquitted where the rule of law so requires irrespective of guilt or otherwise.

THE FIRM:


National Motoring Lawyers are a firm of solicitors dealing exclusively in drink driving related cases. The firm covers all courts in England and Wales.

CONTACT DETAILS:


Interested applicants should click apply to send a CV and submit application.


If you have not been contacted within 28 days you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Your employer will not be approached without your agreement. PQE levels and salary levels are a guide only.

Company

About National Motoring Lawyers

National Motoring Lawyers is the trading name of National Lawyer Services which is a firm of solicitors regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA number 499283). You can find the firm on the Law Society website on the following link

https://solicitors.lawsociety.org.uk/office/469067/national-lawyer-services

The firm deals exclusively in drink driving related cases on private client basis. Gary Roberts, the firms’ Principal qualified as a solicitor in 1998. Since 2009 the firm has represented over 6000 clients charged with drink driving related cases. The firm has a team of reviewing lawyers working alongside a panel of advocate lawyers who attend Courts nationally with support from caseworkers and admin staff.

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