Legal Assistant

Legal AssistantSwindon Office Based (SN1) £25ph Super user of the IKEN Case Management System including advance knowledge of the search function, creating new case files, adding documents to appropriate files, bundling of Court and other papers and the providing of reports required by the Chief Legal Officer.Responsible for the storage, filing and retrieval of all legal documents, maintaining the Agreements system and to set up an electronic filing system to ensure all legal documents are saved electronically and ensure access is available to all relevant individuals within the legal team including the easy retrieval.Ensure that sealing of all legal documentation is completed in timely manner, to a high standard and in accordance with the Council s constitution. Responsible for monitoring of the Legal inboxes in order to determine which team a query relates to and to ensure that all matters are allocated appropriately and files open accordinglyUndertake the right to buy processes under the guidance of the Principal Solicitor and to respond to queries in relation to this process including checking of legal title documents to verfiy the Council''s legal title and collating contract documentation including searches, land registry and local landcharge as well as preparing transfer documentation.Prepare Court documentation using the Case Management System workflow for the single justice procedure (education prosecutions) for submissions to the Court to enable hearings to be ..... full job details .....