About Herts LegalWith more than 100 colleagues in the team Herts Legal is one of the largest and most successful legal teams in local government and offers a complete legal service to clients across the County Council, District Councils and other public sector bodies.Our lawyers are crucial to the County Council's continued success. We have high standards for our services and we are pleased to be recognised as a Centre of Excellence by the Law Society's Lexcel quality standard assessor.Herts Legal provides a fantastic opportunity for ambitious, passionate and organised Lawyers who want to join a supportive and flourishing public sector legal team.We offer flexible hybrid working and have recently moved to newly refurbished modern offices in Stevenage.The Role The role will be a client facing role providing high quality legal services to the County Council’s Members, Schools that subscribe to an Education Helpline and the Children’s Services Directorate, specifically Education and Early Years Departments This role will primarily focus on the provision of Education advice and to ensure that the decisions made by the client department and Schools that subscribe to an Education Helpline are within legal boundaries and achieve their aims and objectives and accord with applicable legislation and County Council policy.You will also contribute to the maintenance of Legal Services’ Lexcel accreditationCriteria for the Role• A solicitor, barrister or legal executive
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