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Location

Wembley, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

Interim Lawyer - Asc & Financial Litigation Team

Reference no: Brent 5244255

Pay Rate: £26.15 per hour PAYE

Hours per week: 36 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 3 months

City: WEMBLEY, LONDON

To work in the area of Financial Litigation practice. Provide proactive, clear and concise legal advice and assistance to client departments.

Supervise Legal Assistants and / or trainees as directed. Deputise for the Senior and Chief Lawyer Financial Litigation team as and when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide specialist legal advice and assistance on all aspects of Debt Collection for a wide range of debts across the Council, including:
  • Adult Social Care
  • Housing Benefit Overpayments
  • Council Tax Arrears
  • Sundry Debts
  • Commercial Litigation
• Take a proactive approach to the recovery of debt and approach the role robustly
• Consult with and advise client departments on strategies to reduce the likelihood of arrears and increase the collection of arrears where they do occur.
• Personally conduct litigation on behalf of the Council up to and including trial and to instruct counsel as appropriate.
• Approve or amend legal aspects of reports to be submitted to members requiring decisions and to attend committee and other meetings to give legal advice as necessary.
• Provide proactive legal advice and assistance to meet the needs of members and officers and to assist with client liaison.
• Contribute towards the running of the team, including supervision of legal assistants, and to Legal Services in general.
• Actively contribute to developing policies and good practice.
• Provide cover as necessary for other areas within the team or within Legal Services as a whole and to deputise for the Senior and Chief Lawyer (Financial Litigation Team) as required.
• Support with strategic and corporate legal work.

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via [email protected] 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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