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About the Role
As a Litigation Solicitor within our Employment, Criminal and Commercial Litigation team, you will deliver legal advice and services to Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea Councils on a wide range of issues. Your caseload will focus on employment, criminal, or commercial and property law, managing high-profile, politically sensitive, and financially significant cases.
Responsibilities
- Deliver legal advice and services to Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea Councils.
- Manage caseloads focusing on employment, criminal, or commercial and property law.
- Conduct proceedings at all levels of civil and criminal courts, employment tribunals, property tribunals, inquiries, and other forums.
- Draft statements of case, applications, summonses, charges, notices, witness statements, affidavits, reports, and other legal documentation.
- Interview and prepare witnesses.
- Advise on law, evidence, procedure, limitation, risk, remedies, costs, and settlements.
- Instruct and manage Counsel and external solicitors.
- Negotiate with other parties, departments, and stakeholders.
- Draft and advise on reports.
- Ensure all professional obligations are met.
Requirements
- Experience of independently managing a caseload.
- Ability to prioritize competing demands and meet deadlines.
- Proven ability to progress matters from instruction to resolution.
- Strong knowledge of the law, evidence, and procedures relevant to specialism.
- Ability to identify and manage legal and reputational risk.
- Capability to draft clear and accurate legal advice, pleadings, statements of case, applications, and witness statements.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to explain complex legal issues clearly to non-specialists.
- Sound professional judgment.
- Readiness to work with minimal supervision in a digital and agile environment.
- Compliance with high professional standards.
- Qualified Solicitor or Barrister entitled to practice in England and Wales or fellow of CILEx with appropriate practicing rights.
- Interest in developing knowledge of employment, criminal, and commercial litigation practice areas outside of own specialism is a bonus.
- Applicants from private practice are encouraged to apply.
- Care Leavers seeking their first job will automatically be invited to interview if they meet essential criteria.
- The Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists.
- Positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 will be utilized to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.
- Declaration of disability guarantees an interview if essential criteria are met.
Skills
- Legal advice and services
- Litigation
- Employment law
- Criminal law
- Commercial law
- Property law
- Court proceedings
- Tribunal proceedings
- Drafting legal documents
- Witness preparation
- Legal risk management
- Reputational risk management
- Negotiation
- Communication skills
- Interpersonal skills
Location
- Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, Westminster, SW1E 6QP
Work Type
- Permanent
- 36 hours per week
- Agile working
Experience Level
- Salary negotiable depending upon experience
Education Level
- Qualified Solicitor or Barrister entitled to practice in England and Wales or fellow of CILEx with appropriate practicing rights.
Salary/Compensations
- £58,299 - £64,815 per annum
Benefits
- Flexible working patterns
About the Company
- The Bi-Borough Legal Services Department at Westminster City Council is dedicated to transforming lives and regenerating the borough.
- Westminster City Council is committed to building an inclusive city that celebrates diverse communities.
- The Council is an inclusive workplace and employer of choice, encouraging applications from all backgrounds.
- Westminster City Council champions equality, diversity, inclusion, and wellbeing.
- The Council is a Disability Confident Employer.
Equal Opportunity
- Westminster City Council is committed to achieving diverse shortlists.
- We especially encourage applications from a Global Majority (GM) background.
- We will utilise the positive action provisions of the Equality Act 2010 to appoint a candidate from a global majority background where there is a choice between two candidates of equal merit.
- The Council is a Disability Confident Employer. If you have declared a disability in your application, we guarantee an interview if you meet the essential criteria of the job.
- If you are invited for interview, you will be asked if you need any reasonable adjustments in order to attend, and we will make these wherever possible.