Legal Assistant
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10 hours ago
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1 Vacancy
Job Summary
1-Month Contract with a Local Authority
- This role involves providing high-quality professional legal and administrative support to the Chief Legal & Monitoring Officer and the wider Legal Team with minimal supervision. The position is crucial for ensuring efficient legal operations and maintaining the integrity of legal processes within the organisation.
- Serve as the super-user for the IKEN Case Management System including advanced searching creating new files uploading documents preparing court bundles and generating reports for the Chief Legal Officer.
- Manage the filing retrieval and secure storage of legal documents maintaining the Agreements system and electronic filing for easy access by the legal team.
- Ensure all legal documents are sealed accurately promptly and in accordance with the Councils constitution.
- Monitor legal inboxes daily identify the appropriate legal team for each query and allocate matters accordingly with correctly opened files.
- Support Right to Buy work under supervision including checking legal titles verifying council ownership preparing contract packs ordering searches and drafting transfer documentation.
- Prepare Court documentation for Single Justice Procedure cases (education prosecutions) via workflow systems to enable hearings to be listed.
- Experience working in a legal local authority or professional services administrative environment.
- Proficiency in case management systems (IKEN preferred) and document management.
- Experience preparing legal bundles court documentation and handling confidential information.
- Experience producing reports data logs performance dashboards or KPI updates.
- Strong administration background including filing document processing and communication with stakeholders.
- GCSEs or equivalent including English and Maths (required).
- Legal or business administration qualification.
- Training in case management systems (desirable).
- Working hours: 37 hours per week
- Location: Civic Campus Euclid Street Swindon SN1 2JG United Kingdom
- Work pattern: Office attendance as required
- Payment: Bi-weekly
Required Skills:
To provide professional legal support to the Chief Legal and Monitoring Officer and the wider legal team with minimal supervision. To prioritise and allocate the tasks required from the legal team to meet the timescales to the satisfaction of the client departments and external stakeholders Solicitors Court and the community.
Required Education:
To provide professional legal support to the Chief Legal and Monitoring Officer and the wider legal team with minimal supervision. To prioritise and allocate the tasks required from the legal team to meet the timescales to the satisfaction of the client departments and external stakeholders Solicitors Court and the community.
Company Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Key Skills
- Administrative Law
- Intellectual Property
- Employment Law
- Advocacy
- Legal Research
- Contract Law
- Criminal Cases
- Legal procedures
- Law
- Legal Operations
- Private Practice
- Civil Litigation
- Federal Courts
- Labor Law
- Arbitration Law
