LOCUM LAWYER – GENERAL LITIGATION (CIVIL)

Southwark (Local Authority role)

Initial 3-6 month contract

Rate: Negotiable, umbrella

3 days office attendance, 2 days home - 160 Tooley Street Southwark Office

The Role: Southwark Council is seeking a qualified Locum General Civil Litigator for its In-house Litigation Team. The Litigation Team provides litigation services to all the council’s directorates.

The work is varied and often complex and sensitive.

The role involves conduct of a varied case load of all types of general litigation including commercial and residential property, contract, injunctions and enforcement.

You will also provide advice to the Council’s departments on a broad range of general litigation related matters.

About you:

You must be a qualified lawyer with substantial civil litigation experience, be a confident, tactically aware civil litigator with strong file management skills and a track record of successfully representing your clients on a range of general litigation work and of meeting assigned targets.

You will be able to work at a pace and have an excellent working knowledge of the courts and court rules.

You will be flexible, adaptable and have the aptitude to take on new areas of work quickly and competently.

You will be an effective communicator and will be equally comfortable working on your own and with others collaboratively.

Ideally you will have the ability and appetite to undertake your own advocacy in the courts

If you have any questions about this role or wish to apply, please contact isobel@deekay.co.uk who will respond at the earliest convenience.