Legal Counsel – Latent Defect Claims

Job Title: Legal Counsel – Latent Defect Claims

Contract: Permanent

Working arrangements: 2 days a week in London

Salary: £60,000

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for providing support and monitoring of day-to-day running of case files; Capable of drafting ‘plain English’ advice for internal distribution.
• Advising on every aspect of construction contracts (e.g. payments, extensions of time, loss and expenses, defects, procurement and insurance issues);
• Reviewing and inputting into submissions for adjudication and arbitration proceedings.
• Oversee proceedings in the Technology & Construction Court
• Amending and advising on contracts (e.g. building contracts, development agreements and agreements for lease, consultant appointments, Contractor Appointments plus all supplementary documentation such as security documents, warranties, novation’s and assignments);
• Drafting and reviewing complex construction contracts including from the NEC and JCT suites, along with other industry standard templates.
• Drafting and maintaining a precedent library of construction contracts, organisation/public sector specific additional clauses and schedules of amendments. Providing legal advice to the Special Projects Team on Procurement service on procurement matters, primarily relating to complex construction procurement exercises.