Vacancies

Location: Office Based – Waterloo, London
Contract: Full-time Permanent
Hours: 9:00am – 5:30pm, Monday to Friday
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

Edwards Duthie Shamash has an exciting opportunity for a Paralegal with an interest in litigation to join our Waterloo office, supporting our busy Media Law and Civil Litigation teams.

We are looking for an organised, energetic and enthusiastic individual to join our friendly teams, working on a diverse range of complex and often high-profile matters where initiative and adaptability will be valued.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

This is a fast-paced, varied and hands-on role, providing close support to fee earners across all aspects of case preparation.

As a paralegal you will:-

• Assist with the preparation of a wide range of legal documents, including witness statements and court orders;
• Attend client meetings, conferences with Counsel and court hearings;
• Assist with new enquiries;
• Conduct legal research;
• Collate, organise and prepare documentation, including court bundles; and
• Support the teams in managing substantial caseloads and demanding deadlines.

Training and close supervision will be provided.

Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will have excellent verbal and written skills, together with strong interpersonal skills.

You will be pro-active, highly organised and able to multi-task, prioritise effectively and respond constructively to shifting demands in order to meet litigation deadlines, time recording and billing targets.

Strong IT skills are also required, along with a positive, professional approach and the ability to work effectively within a busy team environment.

It is our practice that towards the end of a Paralegal’s first year with the Firm, they may be considered for a training contract.

Successful completion of LPC, BVC or SQE 1, together with previous paralegal experience, is desirable but not essential.

Applications by CV and covering letter to: recruitment@edslaw.co.uk

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies.

Applications to include CV and Covering Letter

Location: Office based – Ilford
Contract: Full-time Permanent
Hours: 9:00am – 5:30pm, Monday to Friday (In office)
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

We are looking for an experienced and highly capable Property Legal Secretary to join our property team.

This is a busy and demanding role supporting a Senior Consultant who is highly hands-on and works at a fast pace. The successful candidate will work alongside another Legal Secretary within a friendly and supportive wider team.

The role would particularly suit an experienced Legal Secretary with strong, traditional legal secretarial skills and extensive property experience, ideally within Commercial Property.

The Role

You will provide comprehensive secretarial and administrative support to a Senior Consultant, managing a high-volume workload and helping to ensure matters progress efficiently.

The role requires someone who is organised, confident, proactive and able to work at pace while maintaining a consistently high level of accuracy and attention to detail.

Given the nature of the work, the position may also involve responsibilities that extend beyond traditional secretarial duties and towards a paralegal level of support.

Key responsibilities are likely to include:

• Providing high-quality legal secretarial and administrative support to the Senior Consultant.
• Preparing, formatting and amending correspondence and legal documents.
• Managing a busy diary and ensuring key dates and deadlines are monitored.
• Opening, maintaining and closing files accurately.
• Liaising with clients, solicitors, third parties and other professionals as required.
• Assisting with the progression of property matters from instruction through to completion.
• Managing emails, correspondence and document production efficiently.
• Maintaining accurate records on the case management system.
• Supporting the Senior Consultant with a high-volume and fast-moving caseload.
• Working closely with the other Legal Secretary and wider Property team to ensure effective administrative support.
• Undertaking additional duties of a paralegal nature where appropriate and within experience.

About You

We are looking for someone with:

• Willing to attend the office 5 days, Monday to Friday.
• Extensive experience working as a Legal Secretary within Property.
• Commercial Property experience is highly desirable.
• Strong traditional legal secretarial skills.
• Excellent document production and typing skills.
• A high level of organisation and efficiency.
• The ability to work quickly and confidently within a demanding environment.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• The ability to prioritise competing deadlines and manage a high-volume workload.
• Confidence working independently while also contributing to a supportive team.
• The ability and experience to take on responsibilities that may extend towards paralegal-level work.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Experience using the TFB case management system would be advantageous, although candidates familiar with systems such as LEAP or similar case management platforms are also encouraged to apply.

This role is suited to a more experienced Legal Secretary who is comfortable working autonomously and supporting a senior fee earner within a busy Property practice.

What We Offer

You will join a friendly and supportive team and will have your own office located next to the other Legal Secretary.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Property Legal Secretary seeking a fulltime permanent position within a busy and established legal environment.

Applications should include CV and covering letter.

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies.

Applications to include CV and Covering Letter

Location: Office Based – London/Multi-site
Contract: Full-time, Permanent
Hours: 9:00am – 5:30pm, Monday to Friday, (plus ad hoc out-of-hours callouts, including some evenings and weekends)
Salary: Competitive, dependent on experience

We are looking for an experienced and proactive Facilities Manager to take responsibility for the effective management, maintenance and day-to-day operation of our offices, storage locations and associated facilities.

This is a varied and hands-on role, ideal for someone who is highly organised, practical and comfortable managing multiple sites, suppliers and competing priorities. You will play a key role in ensuring our premises remain safe, secure, compliant, well maintained and fit for purpose.

The Role

You will take responsibility for the Firm’s facilities operations, including planned and reactive maintenance, accommodation matters, health and safety, security, contractors, procurement and facilities-related services.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Managing the day-to-day facilities requirements of the Firm’s offices, storage locations and other premises.
• Organising and overseeing planned and reactive maintenance, repairs and improvement works.
• Developing and maintaining annual and three-year planned maintenance programmes, including anticipated costs and priorities.
• Managing accommodation-related matters and ensuring premises remain suitable for operational requirements.
• Coordinating contractors, suppliers and service providers, monitoring performance and ensuring value for money.
• Managing facilities-related contracts, procurement and supplier relationships.
• Supporting health and safety compliance across all locations.
• Overseeing building security, access arrangements, keys, alarms and related systems.
• Attending out-of-hours call-outs across the Firm’s offices, including evenings and weekends where required.
• Managing the Firm’s archiving and file destruction programmes and procedures, including supervision of relevant staff.
• Supporting office moves, refurbishments, maintenance projects and other facilities-related initiatives.
• Assisting with the recording of sickness absence as and when required.
• Maintaining accurate facilities records, schedules and documentation.
• Identifying opportunities to improve facilities services, processes and cost efficiency.

Qualifications & Experience

You will have experience of:

• Previous experience in a Facilities Manager, Facilities Coordinator, Premises Manager or similar role.
• Experience managing multiple premises or locations.
• Experience overseeing planned and reactive maintenance.
• Experience managing contractors, suppliers and service contracts.
• Experience obtaining quotations, monitoring expenditure and supporting budget management.
• A good understanding of workplace health and safety requirements.
• Experience maintaining facilities records, compliance documentation and maintenance schedules.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office.

The following would be advantageous:

• A recognised facilities management qualification, such as an IWFM qualification or equivalent.
• A recognised health and safety qualification, such as IOSH Managing Safely or NEBOSH.
• Experience working within a legal, professional services or similarly regulated environment.
• Experience with building compliance, fire safety, risk assessments and contractor management.
• Experience managing archiving, records storage and confidential file destruction processes.

Equivalent practical experience will also be considered where formal qualifications are not held.

About You

We are looking for someone who is confident taking ownership of a busy facilities function and able to respond effectively to both planned and unexpected issues.

You will be:

• Highly organised with strong prioritisation skills.
• Proactive, practical and solutions focused.
• Comfortable working independently and taking ownership of issues through to resolution.
• A strong communicator with the ability to build effective relationships with colleagues, contractors and suppliers.
• Detail-oriented with strong record-keeping skills.
• Commercially aware and conscious of value for money.
• Reliable, flexible and able to respond to out-of-hours callouts, including some evenings and weekends, when required.
• Discreet and professional when handling sensitive or confidential information.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to take ownership of a varied and important facilities function within a busy professional environment. You will work across the Firm and play a key role in ensuring our offices operate safely, efficiently and effectively.

If you are an organised, dependable and hands-on facilities professional who enjoys taking responsibility and making things run smoothly, we would be pleased to hear from you.

Applications should include CV and covering letter

We are an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Please note that we do not accept unsolicited applications or CVs from recruitment agencies.

Applications to include CV and Covering Letter

Our Community Law Team has expertise in all areas of social welfare law, including housing & debt, community care and mental health.  The team has a particularly strong reputation for housing law and has brought a number of significant cases over the last two decades and is recognised in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners. 

We now wish to recruit a housing caseworker to join our Community Law Team at our office in Stratford, London E15.  Some knowledge and experience of housing law and litigation will be an advantage.  

All candidates must be legally entitled to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Successful completion of BVC/LPC/SQE is not required but highly desirable.

Applications to include CV and Covering Letter

Location: London

Edwards Duthie Shamash Solicitors, a legal 500 firm, has a vacancy for a solicitor in criminal litigation.

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and enthusiastic individual to join our respected criminal department. Ideally, you will be qualified as a Duty Solicitor but, if not, we will provide training and support to the right candidate to achieve this qualification.

You will be an experienced advocate or someone with the enthusiasm to develop advocacy skills. This is an opportunity for a person with the right skills and aptitude to develop professionally. The successful candidate will have the experience of working in a challenging but stimulating environment and the opportunity to work alongside successful and experienced solicitor advocates.

Your work would embrace all aspects of Criminal Law, from advisory work, police stations, proceedings in the Court of Appeal and all stages in between.

Successful candidates will have: –

• A first –rate knowledge of criminal law and procedure.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to organise work and meet deadlines.
• Good IT skills.
• To demonstrate the highest standards of client care
• To be able to provide quality advice to clients
• To be able to work effectively, with flexibility in your approach to work.

You will be able to demonstrate the highest standards of client care, quality advice to clients and flexibility in your approach to work.

Applications to include CV and Covering Letter

Location: London

Edwards Duthie Shamash Solicitors, a legal 500 firm, has a vacancy for an Accredited Police Station Representative.  

This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and enthusiastic individual to join our respected criminal department. Based at our Ilford/ Stratford office you will work closely with members of our experienced criminal law team to manage a varied caseload.

Main duties & responsibilities

In addition to attending Police Stations, the role will also involve assisting fee earners within the department with all aspects of their work  including:  undertaking research, case administration and document management, analysis of information /evidence, attending meetings with clients and counsel, attending at court appearances and drafting witness statements.

Training and close supervision would be provided by senior fee earners within team.

Skills & Experience

Successful candidates will have: –

• Police Station Accreditation
• A good working knowledge of criminal law and procedure.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Ability to organise work and meet deadlines.
• Good IT skills.

You will be able to demonstrate the highest standards of client care, quality advice to clients and flexibility in your approach to work.

Suitable candidates may be considered for a training contract after a qualifying period.

Applications to include CV and Covering Letter

Our Community Law Team has expertise in all areas of social welfare law, including housing & debt, community care and mental health law.

We now wish to recruit a mental health lawyer to join our Community Law Team at our office in Stratford, London E15.

The successful candidate will have at least 3 years’ PQE and have attained their Law Society Mental Health Scheme accreditation.

They will also have advocacy experience, be a strong communicator with the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients while working in an organised and flexible manner.

Applications to include CV and Covering Letter