Legal Assistant: Commercial (Property)

Position: Legal Assistant: Commercial (Property)
Location: London Borough of Harrow, Forward Drive, Harrow, HA3 8NT
Employer: Pertemps Recruitment Partnership for London Borough of Harrow
Contract Type: Temporary (initially 3 months, ongoing)
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 17:00
Work Arrangement: Hybrid, based at Harrow Civic Hub

Role Overview:
Pertemps is looking for a dedicated and proactive Legal Assistant: Commercial to join the growing team at the London Borough of Harrow. This temporary position offers an hourly rate of up to £16.19 - £17.66 PAYE and comes with valuable training opportunities, strong career development prospects, and 21 days of annual leave (excluding Bank Holidays).

Key Responsibilities:

• Act as lead paralegal on commercial matters-property, planning, regeneration, contracts and procurement-handling case files end-to-end for shared-services councils and external clients.
• Rotate between specialist teams to broaden your legal expertise and cover diverse practice areas.
• Carry out targeted legal research, draft advice and documentation, and support solicitors as required.
• Assist in developing and delivering training sessions for officers-sessions may take place off-site or outside standard hours.
• Serve as a super-user of the electronic case-management system, providing administrative and technical support.
• Work under the guidance of qualified lawyers, escalating issues and ensuring files remain up to date.

Requirements:

• Prior experience in a legal environment.
• Proven ability to collaborate productively within a team.
• Strong written and verbal legal-advice skills, with experience briefing officers or clients.
• Track record of managing your own caseload-with minimal supervision-in at least one of these areas: property, planning, regeneration, contracts or procurement.
• Experience delivering legal guidance or training in a public forum.

About us:
For almost 60 years, Pertemps Recruitment Partnership have been the market leader in providing permanent and temporary staffing solutions and we are one of the most established players within the recruitment industry. The Sunday Times has listed us as one of the Best 100 Companies to work for 14 years running. We are not a big scary faceless company, quite the opposite: we strongly believe in the personal touch with everything we do. We are proud to be accredited 'investor in people' which is reflected across our business in length of service and career progression of our employees.

London Borough of Harrow is the 12th largest London borough and one of the most culturally diverse local authorities in the UK, making it a great place to live, work and visit. Located 10 miles from the city centre and just 13 minutes to Euston from Harrow & Wealdstone station there are great transport links via the Metropolitan Line, Watford DC Line and national rail service. It is easily accessible to the M1, M25 and A406.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, any your data protection rights, can be found by visiting www.cifas.org.uk/fpn