Interim PT Commercial Lawyer - Legal Services
Reference no: Darlington 6335414877067
Pay Rate: £20.85 per hour PAYE
18 Monday – Friday, TBC
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: FEETHAMS
Pay rate negeotiable
Post can be fully home-based
Needed 2 or 3 days per week.
Be a key member of the Commercial team, responsible for providing a comprehensive advice and drafting service on contracts, agreements and procurement issues.
Deal with company, commercial, partnership, unincorporated bodies, trusts, and associated matters for the Council and external clients. Help with other areas of the work of the Commercial Team and Legal Services as may be required. Assist in the management of the Commercial Team and contribute to the overall management of Legal Services
Key Responsibilities:
* Advise on, draft and amend agreements, contracts and other legal documents.
* Advise on procurement procedure and issues and draft or amend relevant documentation.
* Deal with company and commercial matters, including companies searches, formation, responsibilities, local authority trading, partnerships, joint ventures and other arrangements with outside bodies.
* Deal with partnership, joint working agreements and other arrangements with outside bodies.
* Deal with issues relating to the constitutions of unincorporated bodies.
* Deal with the formation of trusts and issues concerned with the management of trusts.
* Advise on issues relating to contractual and procurement disputes and any litigation that arises and to work jointly with colleagues in dealing with such litigation.
* Attend and present cases (subject to rights of audience) at courts, panels and hearings, as required
* Keep under review, research and advise on factual and legal matters (including the impact of new legislation and cases) so far as it relates to the job purpose.
* Provide a strategic and proactive legal service within the remit of the job purpose, by seeking to anticipate issues and become involved with ideas, initiatives and projects at an early stage.
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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