Public Sector Legal Jobs: Local Government Needs Your Expertise

Increasing numbers of public sector legal jobs are becoming available as local authorities across the UK recruit temporary and contract staff to plug skills gaps and deal with burgeoning caseloads.

Authorities are hiring high quality legal professionals on a temporary and contract basis to work on specific projects or to provide cover for holidays or long-term sickness.

Many temporary and contract posts within large public sector organisations can lead to permanent roles as demand for their services grows.

Public sector legal jobs available through LAW Absolute typically include:

• Childcare ­- LAW Absolute has seen a large influx in demand for childcare lawyers in the London boroughs and other local government organisations following high profile national cases.
• Commercial Contracts -­ local authorities with complex service delivery agreements involving private sector contractors need temporary and contract lawyers to fill growing numbers of public sector legal jobs.
• Central Government Projects -­ local authorities are recruiting lawyers to help them implement the legal work involved in centrally driven flagship projects such as Building Schools For The Future.
• Employment ­- restructuring in central and local authorities is putting pressure on their HR departments as they struggle to deal with large volumes of work generated by their own day-to-day employment issues.

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Public Sector Legal Jobs: Opportunities For You

LAW Absolute recruits across the UK. Large numbers of public sector legal jobs are available in London and the Home Counties in particular.

Many charity and not-for-profit clients are also recruiting. They tend to take on fixed term contractors rather than ongoing temporary lawyers.

Candidates best suited for local authority, charity and not-for-profit sector work are ideally those who have come from the public sector.

Private sector candidates are also welcome but you will need to have dealt with publicly-funded casework in previous roles.

LAW Absolute For Public Sector Legal Jobs

LAW Absolute has 50 collective years of experience in temporary and contract legal recruitment.

This is the absolute difference that sets us apart from other legal recruitment agencies which tend to concentrate on permanent recruitment.

Our expertise covers the public sector, private practice and commerce & industry.

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