Principal Commercial Lawyer

About the team

With 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.

Principal Lawyers are instrumental in ensuring the service provided is of a consistently high quality. You will be client facing, regularly meeting with key clients and external partners to discuss service delivery.

You will support, oversee, develop and motivate the team to enable them to reach their full potential and realise their career goals.

You will also contribute to the maintenance of Legal Services’ Lexcel accreditation
As a member of the Legal Services Management team you will be responsible for budget monitoring, service planning and resourcing within the team, with the support of the Director and Assistant Chief Legal Officers.

Alongside these management responsibilities you will also hold an active case load and will advise on a range of complex matters within your specialist experience.

Essential criteria

• A qualified solicitor, barrister, or legal executive
• Extensive knowledge and experience of public sector procurement law
• Extensive knowledge and experience of commercial contract
• Demonstrable ability in managing a team of people along with the competing demands of an active case load
• Experience of building strong working relationships with clients and internal teams

Desirable Criteria

• Knowledge and experience of local government and public law