Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Senior Solicitor - Property on behalf of Luton Borough Council.
Main purpose of position:
To assist in the provision of a comprehensive legal service to the Council, its Executive, Committees and Sub-Committees, and to Departments.
To provide high quality legal advice and to be responsible for a personal legal case load in relation to property matters
You will be responsible to:
·Give legal advice, often in relation to highly complex matters, to Officers and members of the Council as required to achieve innovative solutions to problems which comply with the law.
·Conduct all types of land related transactions in an effective efficient and timely manner to achieve any relevant budgetary targets or policies set by the Council while ensuring that the law is complied with.
·Carry out, with the minimum of supervision, a wide range of other legal work as required, including the drafting of any necessary documents (but excluding advocacy before Courts and Tribunals) to implement decisions taken in pursuance of the Council's functions.
·Prepare reports for and attend and give legal and procedural advice, including in relation to complex and highly complex matters to the Executive, to any Committee or Members of such Executive and to such Committees, Sub-Committees, Working Parties and other groups of Members or Officers as may be required to enable deci...