Service Care Legal are currently recruiting on behalf of a London Borough Council who are seeking a Governance Lawyer to join their team on a contract basis. Please find below further details with regards to this position.

ROLE: Governance Lawyer

LOCATION: London

RATE: 45.00 to 48.00 per hour

CONTRACT: Initial 4 months (with possibility of extension)

Please note that this role would be hybrid working (2 or 3 days per week in the office).

The Role

To deal with complex high value and/or sensitive litigation cases and managing risk, including areas such as governance, freedom of information and GDPRTo advise the Monitoring Officer and the Deputy Monitoring Officers on a range of governance issuesTo keep up and advise to stakeholder with regards to ever-changing legislationThe Person

A qualified Solicitor, Legal Executive or Barrister with relevant governance law experienceExtensive knowledge of public law principles and local government decision making would be essential fore this positionPrevious public sector experience for this position would be essentialIf this Governance Lawyer role sounds like an opportunity of interest, please feel free to reach out to Lloyd Stanley on (phone number removed), or email (url removed). We also welcome referrals for this position, where a successful recommendation would be worth 250 each.