Disrepair Lawyer

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Disrepair Lawyer - ( 26736 ) Description Disrepair Lawyer Salary circa £40,000 per annum negotiable based on skills and experience plus great benefits including Health Cash Plan! Permanent, Full Time (37.5 hpw), hybrid working Newcastle upon Tyne: We can’t offer a CoS for this role Home, a place where you belong Join Home Group as our Disrepair Lawyer as part of our in-house Property Litigation and Housing Management Team. You’ll provide vital legal support on disrepair claims, acting for the business in defending legal cases. Working with our internal Legal Team and our Housing Management and Maintenance team, you’ll deliver a customer focused in-house legal service. What you’ll do: Advising on and defending disrepair claims, including both pre-issue and issued claims. Advising our maintenance teams and working with them to effectively respond to disrepair claims. You will oversee, where appropriate, instructions given to external firms to defend claims on our behalf, making sure it's done well and effectively. You will draft pleadings and documents for court issued cases in compliance with court directions and Civil Procedure Rules. Sometimes, you might represent the company in c...