In-house Legal Counsel (Litigation)
| Posting date: | 16 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £55,075 to £63,771 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2025 |
| Location: | Ealing, West London |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 4 days per week |
| Company: | A2Dominion |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
In-House Legal Counsel (Litigation)
Salary: £55,075 - £63,771 based on experience
Type: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)
Location: Ealing, London (Hybrid working – typically Monday is the team day in the office)
About the legal team
Join our highly successful In-House Legal Team!
The Legal Team is a high achieving in house legal team providing litigation and transactional property legal services. As an entrepreneurial department and team, we are constantly looking at how we can add value and improve the services provided to A2Dominion so that it can reinvest back into its social purpose. We also support professional and personal development, and many of our team members have been promoted into their roles and supported to qualification. It is because of this success, that we now have this opportunity in our team, owing to team members moving on to new roles consisting of promotions and new areas of law. The litigation team, deals with all areas of housing management including leasehold, carried out ASB and possession and other litigation, and currently, there is a disrepair focus. The team is inclusive and diverse, and work well as a team. We’re looking for people who can enhance our offering, are team spirited, and those who maintain an interest in what is happening in law and within A2Dominion.
About the role
We’re searching for an In-House Legal Counsel to join our friendly and hard-working Governance & Compliance division at A2Dominion. This role is for a competent housing management lawyer able to work without supervision, and with a love of the law and zest for ensuring that our client’s properties are fit for purpose and inhabited by those entitled to be doing so. To be successful in this role you will be a qualified lawyer with a right to practice in England and Wales.
Key responsibilities:
Professional
To act in a way that upholds the rule of law and the proper administration of justice
To maintain high standards of professional and personal conduct in a way that upholds public trust and confidence in you, the legal profession and in legal services provided by authorised persons
To act with independence, honesty and integrity, and ensure that your independence is not compromised
To treat everyone fairly and without prejudice, and to act in a way that encourages equality, diversity and inclusion
To act competently and in the best interests of your client and respect client confidentiality.
Departmental
Provide specialist legal advice and carry out legal work on behalf of our in house client
Manage own files from inception to completion
Take client instructions, and provide legal advice both orally and in writing, and client care/case management generally
Contribute to the drafting of policy, process and technical guidance on legal issues
Prepare and deliver in house training in your area of expertise
Be a trusted business partner, be entrepreneurial, facilitative, commercial and solutions focused. This means staying abreast of legal developments in your area of expertise (and where you’d like to develop) and sharing your knowledge
Deliver an excellent service to our customers, stakeholders and team members by building strong relationships with colleagues and clients across all business areas, and providing technical expertise and guidance to all including to junior team members
Manage any work sent out to our external legal framework provider and comply with the process of engaging such work/incurring such costs
Forecast and capture expenditure accurately, comply with policy before incurring liability for disbursements, and recover such costs whenever possible.
Litigation sub-team (in addition to profession and departmental)
Conduct cross tenure legal work and advocacy (as necessary) on all aspects of housing and property management (and in particular housing management), with the primary aim of providing early cost-effective solutions without recourse to litigation where possible. This includes taking client instructions, and providing legal advice both orally and in writing, and client care generally
Draft full suite of legal documentation as necessary, including (but not limited to) court applications, pleadings, statements of case/defences, witness statements, settlement agreements, instructions and briefs to counsel, instructions to experts, other legal documents and correspondence and all follow up as required
Act on client instructions and in particular, negotiate settlements in accordance with their requirements
Prepare cases for taking to courts and tribunals and ADR, diarising key dates in accordance with departmental requirements, and comply with all deadlines set by the relevant forum.
More about you
For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following:
Educated to degree level or equivalent with relevant post graduate qualification to enable practice at solicitor/CILEx fellow level
A qualified lawyer (solicitor or CILEx fellow equivalent) with experience in practice – in house and/or private practice
A strong property background with good working knowledge of all legal tenures, in particular those relating to social housing, Landlord and Tenant, and the work of the Group
Clear analytical skills, with the ability to process large amounts of information into effective legal proceedings
Excellent oral and written communication skills, a confident negotiator, with an ability to influence at all levels and explain and put complex legal and technical terms into practical workable solutions
Salary: £55,075 - £63,771 based on experience
Type: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)
Location: Ealing, London (Hybrid working – typically Monday is the team day in the office)
About the legal team
Join our highly successful In-House Legal Team!
The Legal Team is a high achieving in house legal team providing litigation and transactional property legal services. As an entrepreneurial department and team, we are constantly looking at how we can add value and improve the services provided to A2Dominion so that it can reinvest back into its social purpose. We also support professional and personal development, and many of our team members have been promoted into their roles and supported to qualification. It is because of this success, that we now have this opportunity in our team, owing to team members moving on to new roles consisting of promotions and new areas of law. The litigation team, deals with all areas of housing management including leasehold, carried out ASB and possession and other litigation, and currently, there is a disrepair focus. The team is inclusive and diverse, and work well as a team. We’re looking for people who can enhance our offering, are team spirited, and those who maintain an interest in what is happening in law and within A2Dominion.
About the role
We’re searching for an In-House Legal Counsel to join our friendly and hard-working Governance & Compliance division at A2Dominion. This role is for a competent housing management lawyer able to work without supervision, and with a love of the law and zest for ensuring that our client’s properties are fit for purpose and inhabited by those entitled to be doing so. To be successful in this role you will be a qualified lawyer with a right to practice in England and Wales.
Key responsibilities:
Professional
To act in a way that upholds the rule of law and the proper administration of justice
To maintain high standards of professional and personal conduct in a way that upholds public trust and confidence in you, the legal profession and in legal services provided by authorised persons
To act with independence, honesty and integrity, and ensure that your independence is not compromised
To treat everyone fairly and without prejudice, and to act in a way that encourages equality, diversity and inclusion
To act competently and in the best interests of your client and respect client confidentiality.
Departmental
Provide specialist legal advice and carry out legal work on behalf of our in house client
Manage own files from inception to completion
Take client instructions, and provide legal advice both orally and in writing, and client care/case management generally
Contribute to the drafting of policy, process and technical guidance on legal issues
Prepare and deliver in house training in your area of expertise
Be a trusted business partner, be entrepreneurial, facilitative, commercial and solutions focused. This means staying abreast of legal developments in your area of expertise (and where you’d like to develop) and sharing your knowledge
Deliver an excellent service to our customers, stakeholders and team members by building strong relationships with colleagues and clients across all business areas, and providing technical expertise and guidance to all including to junior team members
Manage any work sent out to our external legal framework provider and comply with the process of engaging such work/incurring such costs
Forecast and capture expenditure accurately, comply with policy before incurring liability for disbursements, and recover such costs whenever possible.
Litigation sub-team (in addition to profession and departmental)
Conduct cross tenure legal work and advocacy (as necessary) on all aspects of housing and property management (and in particular housing management), with the primary aim of providing early cost-effective solutions without recourse to litigation where possible. This includes taking client instructions, and providing legal advice both orally and in writing, and client care generally
Draft full suite of legal documentation as necessary, including (but not limited to) court applications, pleadings, statements of case/defences, witness statements, settlement agreements, instructions and briefs to counsel, instructions to experts, other legal documents and correspondence and all follow up as required
Act on client instructions and in particular, negotiate settlements in accordance with their requirements
Prepare cases for taking to courts and tribunals and ADR, diarising key dates in accordance with departmental requirements, and comply with all deadlines set by the relevant forum.
More about you
For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following:
Educated to degree level or equivalent with relevant post graduate qualification to enable practice at solicitor/CILEx fellow level
A qualified lawyer (solicitor or CILEx fellow equivalent) with experience in practice – in house and/or private practice
A strong property background with good working knowledge of all legal tenures, in particular those relating to social housing, Landlord and Tenant, and the work of the Group
Clear analytical skills, with the ability to process large amounts of information into effective legal proceedings
Excellent oral and written communication skills, a confident negotiator, with an ability to influence at all levels and explain and put complex legal and technical terms into practical workable solutions