Highways and Planning Lawyer

CRA GROUP RECRUITMENT AND PAYROLL LTD; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority is seeking a legal management professional to lead a team of lawyers. The role includes providing legal advice, managing cases, and contributing to staff training. Ideal candidates will be solicitors or barristers with strong project management skills and significant experience at a senior level.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Hot desking

Qualifications

• Solicitor or barrister eligible to practice in England and Wales.
• Substantial experience at a senior management level in a specialist area.

Responsibilities

• Assist management of a group of lawyers and provide expert legal advice.
• Manage a varied caseload and deliver innovative solutions.
• Support the Monitoring Officer with legal duties and training.

Skills

Change Management

Project Management

Continuous Improvement

Education

Degree or equivalent professional qualification

Job description

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Contract Type: 4 months contract with a local authority

Job Purpose

• This role will be required to assist in the management of a group of lawyers in identified work areas according to business need, providing leadership, supervision, direction and expert legal advice to the County Council, its members, officers and committees. The role will contribute to the wider management of Legal Services and lead by example in modelling and embedding the council’s values and behaviours across the service.
  

Key Duties/Accountabilities

• In this role you will manage a full, varied and demanding caseload and deliver innovative solutions with minimal supervision. Within the team the role holder will support and deliver both personally and through assisting in the management of the team and its resources, the council’s ambition to reduce reliance on external legal support.
  
• As part of the role, you will be required to undertake and/or manage advocacy where required.
  
• This role will support the Monitoring Officer in respect of their duty to advise the County Council of any illegality or procedural default to enable the matter to be investigated.
  
• The role will include contributing to the training of staff within the Council to ensure that they are kept up to date with the law and emerging issues. Legal Services operates in a paper light environment, with minimal physical storage. The role holder will be required to manage and record their work contemporaneously using our electronic case management systems and keeping paper records to a minimum.
  

Essential Experience Required

• Experience of the principles of change management, project management and continuous improvement, and their practical application is essential.
  
• Degree or equivalent professional qualification plus substantial experience at a senior management level in a specialist area is essential.
  
• Solicitor, barrister or Fellow of CILEX who is eligible to practise in England and Wales and has (or be in a position to apply for) a current practicing certificate issued by the relevant regulatory authority is essential.
  

Additional information to note

• We provide a flexible working environment. Within our offices the role holder will be expected to hot desk. The post holder must, if required by the role, be available to work and attend proceedings and meetings at pre-arranged times (including out of core hours) and in locations away from their contractual base.
  
• The closing date for this position is 25th June 2025.
  

Requirements

Requirements

• Experience of the principles of change management, project management and continuous improvement
  
• Degree or equivalent
  

Job Description
Contract Type: 4 months contract with a local authority
Job Purpose

• This role will be required to assist in the management of a group of lawyers in identified work areas according to business need, providing leadership, supervision, direction and expert legal advice to the County Council, its members, officers and committees. The role will contribute to the wider management of Legal Services and lead by example in modelling and embedding the council’s values and behaviours across the service.
  

Key Duties/Accountabilities

• In this role you will manage a full, varied and demanding caseload and deliver innovative solutions with minimal supervision. Within the team the role holder will support and deliver both personally and through assisting in the management of the team and its resources, the council’s ambition to reduce reliance on external legal support.
  
• As part of the role, you will be required to undertake and/or manage advocacy where required.
  
• This role will support the Monitoring Officer in respect of their duty to advise the County Council of any illegality or procedural default to enable the matter to be investigated.
  
• The role will include contributing to the training of staff within the Council to ensure that they are kept up to date with the law and emerging issues. Legal Services operates in a paper light environment, with minimal physical storage. The role holder will be required to manage and record their work contemporaneously using our electronic case management systems and keeping paper records to a minimum.
  

Essential Experience Required

• Experience of the principles of change management, project management and continuous improvement, and their practical application is essential.
  

Essential Qualification Required

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification plus substantial experience at a senior management level in a specialist area is essential.
  
• Solicitor, barrister or Fellow of CILEX who is eligible to practise in England and Wales and has (or be in a position to apply for) a current practicing certificate issued by the relevant regulatory authority is essential.
  

Additional information to note

• We provide a flexible working environment. Within our offices the role holder will be expected to hot desk. The post holder must, if required by the role, be available to work and attend proceedings and meetings at pre-arranged times (including out of core hours) and in locations away from their contractual base.
  
• The closing date for this position is 25th June 2025.
  

Requirements

Requirements

• Experience of the principles of change management, project management and continuous improvement
  
• Degree or equivalent
  

Requirements
This role will be required to assist in the management of a group of lawyers in identified work areas according to business need, providing leadership, supervision, direction and expert legal advice to the County Council, its members, officers and committees. The role will contribute to the wider management of Legal Services and lead by example in modelling and embedding the council’s values and behaviours across the service.