A multi-office law firm are looking for an experienced dispute resolution locum to assist while they recruit permanently for the role. You will ideally have around 10 years' PQE in private practice and be capable of running your own general litigation caseload with a mix of property litigation (i.e. residential and commercial landlord & tenant). You should also have experience of residential & commercial leases, general contract disputes, and forfeiture & dilapidation claims for commercial properties.
 
Probate disputes and Inheritance Act claims experience would be advantageous but is not essential.
 
You must be able to handle a busy caseload unsupervised and work to court deadlines. Advocacy experience for remote timetabling hearings is essential.
 
In addition, you would be expected to help expand the department by re-establishing connections with clients, creating new relationships with clients generated by property work within the firm and via website enquiries, and build on existing client relationships.
 
While you will need to be able to work unsupervised, you will have secretarial and paralegal support as well as the support of the partners. The firm has both paper and electronic files although they are moving towards being paperless in the future.
 
This is a full-time role and while the firm would prefer you to be based at their Potters Bar offices full-time, they will also consider hybrid working of 3 days in-office and 2 days remote per week.
 
You will ideally be available from 21st April 2025 and the role is likely to be for a minimum of 6 months.
 
 An hourly rate of £55 has been specified by the firm for this one.

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Emma Ireland

Emma Ireland LLB AIRP is a failed novelist and accidental poet who writes mostly about politics and social issues. She's either a bloody commie or a bourgeois sell-out depending on whether you listen to her Dad or those who strongly disapprove of Waitrose trifles. After studying law at university she chucked it all in to move to Italy and teach Italian business people how to do their jobs in English. After ten years of wine and sunshine, she returned to the UK and is now a recruitment consultant and freelance writer. At least until that unfinished novel makes her a millionaire.