Job Title: Senior Legal Officer
Job reference: PEB/622703
Job description: A Local authority in the North East of England has approached Venn Group Legal team to recruit a Senior Legal Officer to join their team on a locum basis. Some office presence is required.
Day to day duties:
- Advise on a variety of routine commercial and residential property related matters such as the granting and taking leases, acquisitions, disposals, easements, reports on title, wayleaves, licences with the addition of complex strategic development and regeneration projects
- Makes sure Legal work complies with all applicable law, Council policies, the Council’s Constitution (which includes Contract Procedure Rules and Financial Procedure Rules) and decisions of the Council, Cabinet, committees, officers and other bodies as appropriate
- Advise Cabinet, committees, working parties, other meetings and other bodies of a similar nature
- support in connection with litigation, tribunals, arbitration and other dispute resolution proceedings and hearings and advise upon the merits and settlement of claims
The successful candidate will have previous experience handling the above duties and have previous Local Authority experience.
Salary: £30-£40
Length: 6 months initially
To discuss this role in more detail please contact Paddy Behan on pbehan@venngroup.com or 0113 234 6400