Immigration Solicitor

Birmingham Source: WhatJobs

£50,000–£70,000

Role: Immigration Solicitors (x2) - Birmingham

A leading Legal 500 firm is seeking two or more Immigration Solicitors for permanent positions within its expanding team.

Immigration Department Background:

Our client’s has one of the largest legal aid immigration law practices in the UK and are ranked and recommended as a top-tier practice by The Legal 500 directory for our services including, business immigration, human rights, appeals and overstay. The Legal 500 legal directory applauds the services they provide nationwide. The immigration lawyers have an established reputation in acting for high net worth individuals, new and established business men and women, and innovative and skilled individuals.

The immigration team offers a wide range of services to foreign nationals and families seeking to enter, remain, or settle in the UK. With over 160 specialist immigration lawyers nationwide, the department brings exceptional expertise to all immigration matters. Many of its lawyers are trained barristers who handle complex appeals in the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court.

The team is particularly recognised for its extensive experience in asylum (international protection) claims and for challenging human rights violations involving unaccompanied minors and victims of torture, trafficking, and domestic abuse. In these cases, the firm remains committed to providing support regardless of individual circumstances.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Report directly to Department Director
Responsible for all aspects of Immigration work including providing technical expertise and guidance to other team members
Ability to manage and supervise Solicitors, Trainee Solicitors and Caseworkers to manage appropriate caseload types and complexities
Assisting with delivery of appropriate training and development in the department
Variety of duties including dealing with a range of Immigration work including; detained clients; victims of trafficking & torture; asylum work from initial applications through to Tribunal appeal and upper Court appeal matters; entry clearance applications and appeals and some judicial review work
Preparing and managing funding applications to the Legal Aid Agency,
Preparing draft documents including witness statements and processing evidence
Preparing applications to meet Home Office requirements (incl. drafting application forms, index of documents and letters of representations)
Attending conferences and court
You will have a professional pro-active approach, strong client care skills and be interested in Business Development and Marketing to supplement the substantial work volumes brought in by the company

Key Skills Required

Must have a clean, valid Practicing Certificate at the time of application.
Registered with the Law Society Immigration Accreditation Level,desirable
Strong management skills
Professional with a pro-active approach; excellent client care skills and ability to deal with vulnerable client matters in a sensitive manner and resolve complicated practicalities involved in Immigration issues
Excellent networking and communication skills with the ability to successfully market the Company and generate new business
Working knowledge of the publically funded Immigration work and have the ability to service privately funded cases
Have extensive experience in dealing with all Immigration related work and some expertise on adoption matters
Experience in own advocacy is an advantage
Excellent IT Skills -familiar with Microsoft Office applications and document management skills

This list is not exhaustive and there may be other duties as reasonably required.