Our client is looking for an experienced Legal Assistant/Paralegal
This is maternity cover for the paralegal in the housing and disrepair team, the post will be between 6-12 months duration.
The role is based in the Council’s offices in Laurence House. The job is hybrid, 2 days a week in the office and 3 days working remotely.
The successful candidate is required to have at least a law degree or a graduate diploma in law.
They will be expected to have some knowledge of housing, disrepair and EPA prosecutions
The role will require the candidate to:.
•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.
•Attending legal, income and housing management meetings.
•To carry out some administrative tasks including:
oEnsuring that an accurate log is kept of all existing and new housing and disrepair cases.
oArranging for the payment of external invoices.
oArranging Counsel for hearings and sending bundles to Counsel.
oEntering hearing dates into the Legal Housing Calendar.
oSharing 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.
The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients
are an equal opportunities employer.