Legal Assistant: Housing
We are looking for someone to fill a full time role in a friendly, professional housing law team of five solicitors and three trainee solicitors.
WTB Solicitors LLP are a firm dedicated to legal aid and providing representation to the most vulnerable in society
We are seeking to recruit a motivated and capable individual to work with the team. The role will consist of assisting with case preparation, legal research, document management, processing evidence, initial enquiries, completing funding forms, client and witness contact, attending court and conferences as well as general administration.
Working closely with colleagues. advising clients in respect of casework we are specialists in representing tenants defending possession, injunction, unlawful eviction, disrepair, and homelessness cases.
This is a technical area of law working with vulnerable clients. The role will be best suited to a candidate planning a career in social welfare law.
You will benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- An excellent holiday package: 26 days holiday plus bank holidays and the firm closes 1pm Christmas Eve until 2nd January
- Pension scheme
- Excellent sick pay package, Eye test vouchers
- Cycle scheme and childcare vouchers
- Flexible working arrangements considered
- An opportunity to commence a solicitor apprentice role.
Other benefits
- A small friendly team that values collaboration and teamwork
- Excellent career prospects, broad training, first class IT facilities
- Practicing certificates, DBS checks, Panel memberships / re-accreditations paid for
- Rewards for introduction of work from family / friends
- Employee Wellbeing Scheme
- Departmental “outings” – weekend walks, pub quizzes: an excellent chance to get to know colleagues
Your role will include
- Liaising with clients, third parties and referrers as well as internal teams in a courteous and helpful manner
- Handling client queries & casework
- Diary management, routine office tasks – photocopying / filing
- Attending upon clients – first instructions & subsequently
· Routine none-chargeable case work
- File creation, data entry in the practice management system
- Use of the legal aid CCMS system / Gaining an understanding of the legal id framework
- File creation, data entry in the firms practice management system
- Assisting a partner with his work on the housing possession court duty scheme
- Taking instructions & drafting statements of evidence (several times per week).
This is not a complete list of the functions of this role which will develop as your experience develops
You will have:
- Excellent organisational skills and a self-motivated committed attitude
- An ability to communicate clearly and good telephone manner
- Use of initiative
- Effective time management and the ability to manage multiple deadlines
- A working knowledge of the areas of law or a demonstrable commitment to learning relevant law
- Previous experience in a similar role.
- A candidate with no housing law experience will have a high level of written English (2:1 in a relevant undergraduate degree)
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £24,000.00-£26,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
