Principal Legal Practitioner

Job Description:

Support and advise clients in line with common law principles and practice and accurate interpretation of contracts.

Job Responsibilities:

• Train and develop staff.
• Preparation and maintenance of the annual budgets for the Local Office.
• Act as Principal for Candidate Attorneys.
• Supervise and guide Legal Practitioners and Paralegals.
• Efficient and effective sound management of Local Office operations.

Job Requirements:

• Excellent leadership and people management skills.
• Demonstrate an ability to train Candidate Attorneys as Legal Practitioners.
• Must demonstrate an ability to manage a varied practice.
• At least twelve (12) years of post-qualification legal experience, with a minimum of ten (10) years’ post-admission experience of which four (4) years should be court experience.
• B Proc or LLB degree.
• Admitted Attorney or Advocate, the latter must have completed pupilage successfully at any recognised institution.