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Legal Executive Employment Contract UK

Set authorised legal casework around client care, professional competence and clear supervision.

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19 June 2026
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Job description

Clear role overview and key responsibilities.

Probation period

Clear probation terms for the selected arrangement.

Role-specific duties

Maintained responsibilities, records and authority boundaries for the selected role.

Working hours

Standard and flexible working arrangements.

Holiday entitlement

Holiday terms explained for the selected arrangement.

Confidentiality

Client and company confidentiality.

Disciplinary process

Clear process and employee rights.

Notice periods

Notice terms explained for both parties.

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Use this Legal Executive contract with confidence

Practical checks to help an employer choose the right starting point and prepare the information the document needs.

When to use this contract

Deliver progressed well-documented matters, produce accurate client advice and drafting, and coordinate controlled court and transaction actions.

Workplace context: Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.

What makes this role different

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering practice area status and supervision. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering clients cases and confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering advocacy undertakings and signing. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering CPD travel complaints and conflicts. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering SRA-related procedures.

Not a fit / obtain specialist advice

Recheck the role or obtain appropriate advice if the work would exceed these maintained authority boundaries: The executive cannot perform reserved work, give undertakings, settle or sign outside current professional and firm authority. Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

What to prepare before you issue it

  • the legal specialism
  • the practising rights
  • the supervision and case allocation
  • the signing and settlement limits
  • the case system
  • the complaint and ethics route

Day-to-day operating brief

What Legal Executive work looks like in practice

A Legal Executive manages legal matters within a practice area, advising clients, drafting documents and, where authorised, conducting advocacy or reserved work. Titles, practising rights and supervision must match the employee's actual professional status. Terms should define specialism, caseload, client ownership, practising certificate, signing and settlement authority, court travel, CPD, complaints, conflicts, undertakings and confidential records. Matter plans should identify limitation or court deadlines independently of the client's preferred timetable. Advice records need the facts assumed and options explained. Where supervision is required, evidence of review should precede commitment, filing or an undertaking rather than being added retrospectively. Client advice should state available options, material risk, likely next step and any deadline without guaranteeing outcome. Where instructions change, the matter record should show that the consequences were explained before irreversible action. Supervision notes must identify what was reviewed rather than a generic approval mark. Costs information should be refreshed when scope, hearing length or transaction complexity changes, allowing clients to make informed decisions rather than discover material variation only with the final bill. File reviews should identify supervision, client-care and substantive legal actions separately, ensuring administrative completeness does not mask an unresolved advice issue.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

  • Take instructions and advise clients.
  • Draft legal documents.
  • Manage evidence and deadlines.
  • Negotiate within authority.
  • Conduct authorised advocacy.
  • Maintain client care and case records.

A realistic working scenario

A client asks the executive to give an undertaking beyond firm authority. The employee refuses and escalates rather than relying on case familiarity.

Outputs to agree

  • progressed well-documented matters
  • accurate client advice and drafting
  • controlled court and transaction actions

Records and evidence

  • Instruction scope and advice.
  • Draft review and approval.
  • Deadline hearing and order.
  • Settlement undertaking and authority.
  • Client files.
  • Attendance notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Supervising Solicitor, Practice Manager, Legal Director or Head of Department. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

  • The executive cannot perform reserved work, give undertakings, settle or sign outside current professional and firm authority.
  • Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

  • Case management systems.
  • Document management systems.
  • Secure email.
  • Legal research tools.
  • Deadline or diary systems.

Workplace context

  • Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.

Contract priorities

  • practice area status and supervision
  • clients cases and confidentiality
  • advocacy undertakings and signing
  • CPD travel complaints and conflicts

Information the employer should prepare

  • the legal specialism
  • the practising rights
  • the supervision and case allocation
  • the signing and settlement limits
  • the case system
  • the complaint and ethics route

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Legal Executive contract is built around

These role-pack details give an employer something concrete to check before using the contract for professional services work.

Work setting

Legal office, client meeting rooms, court or tribunal locations where required and secure administration spaces.

Primary duties

  • Take instructions and advise clients.
  • Draft legal documents.
  • Manage evidence and deadlines.
  • Negotiate within authority.

Tools and training to confirm

  • Case management systems.
  • Document management systems.
  • Secure email.
  • Legal research tools.

Governance focus

Employer procedures and role controls. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering practice area status and supervision. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering clients cases and confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering advocacy undertakings and signing.

Contract builder output

Legal Executive clauses and builder inputs

HRHeaven builds the contract from the employer's answers, the selected industry, and the role-specific wording for this job.

Role wording

Legal Executive duties

Deliver progressed well-documented matters, produce accurate client advice and drafting, and coordinate controlled court and transaction actions.

Take instructions and advise clients. Draft legal documents. Manage evidence and deadlines. Negotiate within authority. Conduct authorised advocacy.

Builder answers

What the contract builder captures

Employer and employee details Role title and reporting line Pay, hours and working pattern Holiday, probation and notice Workplace and site rules Company branding and e-sign

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What is added to the finished contract

The executive cannot perform reserved work, give undertakings, settle or sign outside current professional and firm authority.

Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering practice area status and supervision.

Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering clients cases and confidentiality.

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Frequently asked questions

Can all legal executives conduct advocacy?

Only within practising rights and authority.

Who owns client files?

The firm controls records under engagement duties.

Can undertakings be given?

Only under strict firm authority.

Is court travel required?

State locations and expenses.

Who approves settlement?

Use client instructions and delegated limits.

Is CPD included?

State professional support.

How are conflicts handled?

Apply the firm's conflict process.

What is handed over?

Matters, advice, deadlines, funds and undertakings.

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