Solicitor (Social Housing Litigation)

SHLL.1025.1 - Solicitor (Social Housing Litigation)

Posted: 28/10/:43 Salary: Competitive Location: Newcastle Level: Solicitor Deadline: 07/11/:59 Hours: 35.00 Benefits: Competitive Job Type: Permanent Full Time

Are you a qualified Solicitor working in litigation looking for your next challenge in a dynamic and fast paced environment? If so please read on as we might have the ideal role for you. We're looking for a Solicitor with 1 to 4 years post qualifying experience to join our established social housing litigation team in our Newcastle office, to support with housing disrepair claims.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join our successful team, working in our dedicated housing disrepair team in the management and defence of housing conditions claims.

You'll work with some of the firm's key clients, comprising both Housing Associations and Local Authorities to support them in dealing with housing disrepair. You'll be adept at working to challenging timescales with the ability to plan and organise effectively whilst maintaining exceptional client service through strong attention to detail and excellent communication skills.

What will I be doing?

• You'll manage a case load of defended disrepair claims (primarily issued claims but to assist with pre litigation matters where required)
• Contribute to periodic reporting to clients as required by and agreed with those clients
• Assist with supervision of junior paralegals in dealing with pre-action disrepair claims
• Contribute to the department's wider business development objectives and initiatives to strengthen and expand client relationships

You'll have:

• Familiarity with the Civil Procedure Rules and experience in dealing with volume litigation (specific experience in disrepair claims is preferable but not essential).
• Commercial awareness of the factors relevant to volume defendant litigation
• Case management experience
• Advocacy and negotiation skills
• Strong time / diary management skills (including time recording)
• Legal research skills
• Excellent all round communication and interpersonal skills, as well as sound judgement
• An efficient and methodical approach
• Flexibility to adapt working styles and use different approaches where required
• Good prioritisation skills and be able to work with urgency to move matters forward
• The ability to work independently using your own initiative as well as working as part of a team

About us

We're proud to be an independent, full service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us you'll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving firm filled with individuality and differences strengthens our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We're committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we're always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that's right for you - now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2-3 days per week working from one of our office locations.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact quoting vacancy reference SHLL.1025.1.

If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.

Agencies - we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.