Legal Assistant/ Paralegal

Essential Employment; Lewisham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Legal Assistant to manage a caseload of housing and disrepair cases in SE London. The role entails drafting legal documents, attending meetings, and handling various administrative tasks. The position is temporary with a rate of £26.10 per hour. Candidates should have experience in case management and legal drafting.

Qualifications

• Experience managing disrepair and housing cases.
• Ability to draft legal documents such as defences and application notices.
• Strong organizational skills for administrative tasks.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of 40 mixed disrepair and housing cases.
• Attend legal and housing management meetings.
• Maintain accurate logs of all housing cases.

Skills

Case management

Legal drafting

Client communication

Job description

Legal Assistant/ Paralegal needed in SE London

The rate is £26.10ph PAYE

This is a temporary role

The reference number is: OR9824

The successful candidate will manage a caseload of 40 mixed disrepair and housing cases (supervised by the Principal Lawyer/Senior Lawyer). Drafting defences, witness statements and application notices, settling claims and dealing with costs issues.

They will be attending legal, income and housing management meetings, will carry out some administrative tasks including:

• Ensuring that an accurate log is kept of all existing and new housing and disrepair cases.
• Arranging for the payment of external invoices.
• Arranging Counsel for hearings and sending bundles to Counsel.
• Entering hearing dates into the Legal Housing Calendar.
• Sharing the monitoring of the dedicated Legal Housing inbox (with the Legal Assistant in the team) to deal with enquiries relating to new and existing cases and assisting external solicitors with clients and escalating matters when necessary.

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to [e-mail] the reference number.

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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