Duty Solicitor

Duty Solicitor 3+ PQE, Lancashire, £40,000 to £42,000 (DOE). A forward thinking employer offering the flexibility and opportunity to progress your career, the firm provide high quality legal advice and services in a number of private and legally aided disciplines including: Criminal Defence, Business Defence, Motoring and Road Transport, Family & Divorce, Child Care, Mediation, Court of Protection, Community Care, Education, Mental Health, Employment, Police Law, Professional Discipline and Immigration. Flexible working is on offer and you can choose where you work to meet the needs of our Client’s and the Business.

To apply contact Melanie Daly at eNL on 0161 850 0745 or email melanie.daly@enllegal.co.uk with your CV, or simply call for a confidential discussion. Job Ref: 215298581

DUTY SOLICITOR:
You will have responsibility for and will develop and deal with a caseload of Crime Work including representation at the Police Station and Magistrates Court. Part of the out of hours rota for Police Station attendance. You will be enthusiastic and energetic in developing and maintaining local and regional networks to attract and secure new business.

ROLE SPECIFIC:
• A current practicing certificate for either the SRA or CILEX
• Own strong client following
• Ability to run your own caseload and acting with autonomy
• Ability to conduct marketing and building caseload
• Advocacy skills with the ability and willingness to conduct own advocacy
• Procedural and technical competence
• The ability to work to short deadlines, under pressure and to financial targets
• Good client care skills and commitment to these areas of work
• PC literate with good word, excel and outlook skills
• Flexible approach to work
• Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
• If not Duty Qualified a willingness to become accredited

In return the firm are looking for an enthusiastic individual who would fit into a go-ahead and positive environment. They offer a friendly and positive culture based on team work with no micro-managing.

eNL will never share your CV with a third party without your express permission. As part of our candidate care process, we aim to respond to all applications in 7 days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide.


At eNL we value diversity and inclusion. We want to attract people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any characteristics protected by law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.