Legal Adviser

As a Legal Adviser, you will deal with contentious matters before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and Courts. Alongside this, you will also provide high quality, risk based, legal and regulatory advice and case direction across our operational areas. You will have opportunities to contribute fresh ideas to our team, looking for opportunities to build on our culture of continuous improvement.

You will be required to make and draft formal decisions based on evidential and public interest tests. Where you become involved in conducting disciplinary or other proceedings, you will need to act in the public interest and ensure cases proceed in a proportionate and timely way.

You will need to demonstrate understanding of a regulatory environment as you will be involved in providing high quality legal advice and conducting cases either in-house or with the support of external solicitors.,

• Opportunity to use your litigation skills in the public interest


• Help to drive forward investigations by providing practical legal advice to Investigation Officers


• Opportunities to be an advocate of the SRA in public events


• To expand and develop your legal, regulatory experience


• Join a supportive and friendly team with a renowned regulator, This is a hybrid role based either in our Birmingham or Cardiff office, 1-2 days a week, and from home for rest of the week. Occasional travel to our main office in Birmingham would be required depending on training and business needs
  
  Solicitor or Barrister qualified in England and Wales


• Experience of conducting litigation, or providing legal advice preferably in a regulatory environment


• Significant experience of case analysis, legal drafting and decision making in a contentious or regulatory environment


• Ability to acquire and apply extensive knowledge of law and regulation of legal services, We welcome applicants who may be looking to achieve a balance between their personal and professional life. This is a full-time role working 35 hours per week and are happy to talk flexible working.
  
  Previous applicants to this role within the last six months will not be considered in this recruitment campaign.


The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.

We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.Attached Role Profile