Solicitor - Litigation (Hybrid)

Essential Employment; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading employment agency is looking for a qualified Solicitor - Litigation to work in a hybrid role based in Greater London. The candidate should have a strong background in litigation, providing legal advice on housing management, and conducting a variety of housing-related claims. This full-time position is temporary and requires excellent communication skills and teamwork. The role offers 2 days of remote work and includes various responsibilities in providing effective legal services.

Qualifications

• Qualified Solicitor with experience in litigation.
• Strong understanding of housing management and landlord & tenant matters.
• Experience in preparing legal documents and managing cases.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on landlord & tenant matters.
• Conduct litigation for various housing claims.
• Assist in developing in-house legal processes.
• Ensure effective communication with the legal team.

Skills

Legal advice provision

Litigation expertise

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Understanding of landlord & tenant law

Preparation of legal documents

Education

Qualified Solicitor

Job description

Solicitor - Litigation (Hybrid) needed in Greater London, £45ph

PAYE - Reference: OR20400

2 days remote, 3 days in the office

• To provide legal advice and assistance routine/standard housing management and landlord & tenant matters and on more complex matters, with support as appropriate to your level of skill and experience from more senior or experienced team members.
• To include conducting efficient and effective litigation to include but not limited to, anti-social behaviour injunctions; anti-social behaviour possession claims; committal applications; tenancy fraud possession claims; access injunctions; housing disrepair claims; prosecutions under the Environmental Protection Act; applications to the Court of Protection and money claims, briefing Counsel and/or conducting advocacy where appropriate in order to protect the interests of Southern Housing and its Group partners.
• Dependant on your level of skill and experience, to provide or assist in the provision of advice on and conduct of other contentious matters with support as appropriate to your level of skill and experience from more senior or experienced team members. To include First Tier Tribunal cases; trespass/Right of Way/breach of Easement claims and other claims arising from contactor, Landlord and Leaseholder non-performance or breach of contract or lease terms.
• To assist with instructing external solicitors for matters that cannot be dealt with inhouse.
• To assist in developing the in-house legal provision to meet the needs of Southern Housing and its Group partners.
• To ensure that legal work is carried out in house where this is more cost effective including preparing and drafting all own pleadings on routine/standard matters and more complex matters, with support as appropriate to your level of skill and experience from more senior or experienced team members to include but not limited to, notices of seeking possession; claim forms; particulars of claim; defences; reply to defences; part 20 counterclaims; injunctions; committal applications, witness statements; case summaries; lists of issues; chronologies and trial bundles. Ensure communication between instructing officers and the legal team is effective and efficient.
• To assist in the development and to implement processes and procedures to ensure the efficient and effective provision of housing management and other litigation services and advice on landlord & tenant law including the provision of witness support in particular to those witnesses involved with anti-social behaviour cases which includes out of office hours visits to their homes, if required.

This is a full time role on a temporary basis.

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV [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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