Professional Services employment contract

Solicitor Employment Contract UK

Name: Solicitor Employment Contract UK
Brand: HRHeaven
SKU: professional_services_solicitor_generated_v1
Price: 19.99 GBP
Availability: InStock

Define authorised legal practice around client care, professional judgement, supervision and matter control.

Watercolour illustration showing Solicitor at work in Professional Services on a pale sage background

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Last updated: 19 June 2026
Content owner: HRHeaven employment documentation team
Review standard: UK employer template review, versioned clause logic and preview before payment

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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.

Before you create it

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

When to use this contract

Deliver competent documented legal advice, coordinate controlled matter progression, and complete client and professional handovers.

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 files and confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering funds undertakings and signing. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering billing CPD conflicts and complaints. 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 solicitor cannot act outside practising authority, mislead, give unauthorised undertakings, misuse client money or settle beyond instructions. May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

What to prepare before you issue it

the legal specialism
the practising and insurance model
the supervision structure
the case and client-money systems
the signing and settlement limits
the ethics and complaint routes

Day-to-day operating brief

What Solicitor work looks like in practice

A Solicitor advises clients and conducts matters within a practice area, potentially handling litigation, transactions, client money and advocacy. The role is subject to practising, conduct and competence requirements that must remain effective alongside commercial targets. Terms should define specialism, caseload, supervision, client ownership, signing and settlement authority, undertakings, court travel, billing, CPD, conflicts, complaints and professional indemnity. Matter opening should establish client identity, scope, conflicts, authority and funding before substantive work proceeds, subject to controlled urgent exceptions. Advice records need the material facts, options, risks and client decision rather than a bare conclusion. Deadlines should have accountable owners and independent diary safeguards. The solicitor must protect privilege while recognising that copying a lawyer does not automatically make a business communication privileged, and should escalate any actual or potential undertaking immediately. Client-account or payment instructions require the firm's independent verification and cannot rely on emailed bank changes. Closing a matter should address original papers, limitation issues, undertakings, residual balances and retention rather than simply issuing the last invoice.

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

Take instructions and advise.
Draft and negotiate documents.
Manage evidence funds and deadlines.
Supervise allocated staff.
Conduct authorised advocacy.
Maintain client care and compliance.

A realistic working scenario

A client insists on a tactic the solicitor considers improper. The employee follows professional duties and escalation rather than treating the client's payment as authority.

Outputs to agree

competent documented legal advice
controlled matter progression
complete client and professional handovers

Records and evidence

Instruction advice and scope.
Draft negotiation and approval.
Fund undertaking and authority.
Hearing settlement and deadline.
Client files.
Attendance notes.

Reporting relationship

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

Authority and escalation

The solicitor cannot act outside practising authority, mislead, give unauthorised undertakings, misuse client money or settle beyond instructions.
May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

Supervision

Supervise allocated staff.
Allocate and review assigned work within delegated authority and escalate formal people matters through the Employer's procedures.

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 files and confidentiality
funds undertakings and signing
billing CPD conflicts and complaints

Information the employer should prepare

the legal specialism
the practising and insurance model
the supervision structure
the case and client-money systems
the signing and settlement limits
the ethics and complaint routes

Individually written and reviewed against the maintained role record.

Maintained role evidence

The facts this Solicitor 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.
Draft and negotiate documents.
Manage evidence funds and deadlines.
Supervise allocated staff.

Tools and training to confirm

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

Governance focus

SRA context where applicable. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering practice area status and supervision. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering clients files and confidentiality. Follow the Employer's documented arrangements covering funds undertakings and signing.

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Solicitor clauses and builder inputs

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Role wording

Solicitor duties

Deliver competent documented legal advice, coordinate controlled matter progression, and complete client and professional handovers.

Take instructions and advise. Draft and negotiate documents. Manage evidence funds and deadlines. Supervise allocated staff. 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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Specific clauses

What is added to the finished contract

The solicitor cannot act outside practising authority, mislead, give unauthorised undertakings, misuse client money or settle beyond instructions.

May allocate routine work and make operational decisions only within documented staffing, financial, contractual and policy limits.

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

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

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