Legal employment contract
Set senior legal leadership around independent advice, controlled commitments and board-level risk reporting.
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Deliver updated matter in matter-management system showing attendance notes, action plan, deadlines and responsible person, court or tribunal bundle and submission with sign-off trail in case and document records, and conflict-check clearance recorded in the conflicts register before accepting new instructions.
Workplace context: Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.
Protect client files, legal privilege, settlement discussions and confidential case strategy at all times. Maintain accurate, contemporaneous attendance notes, court/tribunal records and deadline entries in the matter-management system. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering run and record conflicts checks in the conflicts register before taking instructions. Escalate client-money, undertaking, missed-deadline or professional-conduct concerns promptly to authorised legal staff. Comply with SRA-related procedures and the Employer's reporting, supervision and approval limits relevant to Legal Director work.
Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: You may progress and sign routine client communications, file court/tribunal documents and approve operational steps within documented approval limits and supervision arrangements. You must not authorise release of client money, close matters with contested settlement strategy, override conflict-check outcomes, or approve departures from agreed deadlines without written approval from the nominated approver or authorised legal staff. All client-money, undertaking, conflict clearance failures, missed or high-risk deadlines and suspected professional-conduct breaches must be escalated immediately as recorded in the escalation routes in the matter-management system. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.
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Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.
SRA context where applicable. Protect client files, legal privilege, settlement discussions and confidential case strategy at all times. Maintain accurate, contemporaneous attendance notes, court/tribunal records and deadline entries in the matter-management system. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering run and record conflicts checks in the conflicts register before taking instructions.
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Role wording
Deliver updated matter in matter-management system showing attendance notes, action plan, deadlines and responsible person, court or tribunal bundle and submission with sign-off trail in case and document records, and conflict-check clearance recorded in the conflicts register before accepting new instructions.
Lead the organisation's legal strategy and team. Advise leadership on material legal risk. Oversee disputes transactions and external counsel. Protect privilege conflicts and legal records. Manage budgets governance and significant deadlines.Builder answers
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Specific clauses
You may progress and sign routine client communications, file court/tribunal documents and approve operational steps within documented approval limits and supervision arrangements. You must not authorise release of client money, close matters with contested settlement strategy, override conflict-check outcomes, or approve departures from agreed deadlines without written approval from the nominated approver or authorised legal staff. All client-money, undertaking, conflict clearance failures, missed or high-risk deadlines and suspected professional-conduct breaches must be escalated immediately as recorded in the escalation routes in the matter-management system.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.
Protect client files, legal privilege, settlement discussions and confidential case strategy at all times.
Maintain accurate, contemporaneous attendance notes, court/tribunal records and deadline entries in the matter-management system.
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Escalate immediately when a deadline in the matter-management dashboard is missed or at risk of being missed. Record the event and your mitigation proposal in the matter-management system's escalation report and notify the nominated approver and practice or department manager as specified in the escalation routes.
Only authorised legal staff or the nominated approver may approve release of client money or execution of an undertaking. Record the authorisation and the payment or undertaking details in the client-money transaction records and the matter file in the case and document records before actioning.
Only within written delegated authority.
Set panel, budget and exception controls.
Separate legal advice and restrict circulation.
They own decisions, but material legal risk must remain recorded.
State attendance and reporting duties.
Include matters, advice, deadlines, disputes, counsel and risks.
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