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Essential Criteria

Criteria: Technical – Legal Professional Skills

Essential:

  • Significant and strong commercial and contract litigation experience.

  • Reliable legal judgement, analysis and appreciation of legal risk and the confidence to give persuasive, balanced and strong risk-based advice.

  • Skilled in presenting risk based legal advice to senior stakeholders.

  • An ability to think strategically and creatively, seeing legal issues in their wider context and advising accordingly.

  • Experience in managing/supervising lawyers and of legal project management.

Criteria: Behaviours

Behaviour: Leadership

Essential:

  • Welcome and respond to views and challenges from others, despite any conflicting pressures to ignore or give in to them.

  • Stand by, promote or defend own and team’s actions and decisions where needed.

  • Inspire and motivate teams to be fully engaged in their work and dedicated to their role.

Behaviour: Communicating and Influencing

Essential:

  • Communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust.

  • Explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand.

  • Deliver difficult messages with clarity and sensitivity, being persuasive when required.

  • Remain open-minded and impartial in discussions, whilst respecting the diverse interests and opinions of others.

Behaviour: Working together

Essential:

  • Actively build and maintain a network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on shared objectives.

  • Challenge assumptions while being willing to compromise if beneficial to progress.

  • Build strong interpersonal relationships and show genuine care for colleagues.

Behaviour: Managing a Quality Service

Essential:

  • Demonstrate positive customer service by understanding the complexity and diversity of customer needs and expectations.

  • Make clear, practical and manageable plans for service delivery.

  • Proactively manage risks and identify solutions.

  • Create regular opportunities for colleagues, stakeholders, delivery partners and customers to help improve the quality of service.

Criteria: Motivational Fit

Motivation for being a GLD lawyer - why do you want to work for the Civil Service and why this role?

Qualifications – Minimum Eligibility Criteria

Academic

Applicants should have a minimum of a 2:1 honours degree in their first degree (in any subject). Where an applicant holds an overseas degree qualification this should be equivalent to a 2.1 degree. GLD will consider applicants who do not have a 2.1 degree but only where satisfactory evidence of equivalent high level academic and/or professional achievement can be provided (e.g. via relevant experience and results achieved for the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)/CPE, Legal Practice Course (LPC), Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC).

Applicants must be qualified to practise as a Solicitor, Barrister or Chartered Legal Executive in England and Wales however, we also accept applications from overseas qualified candidates. You must have completed a training contract/pupillage/qualifying employment or have been exempted from this by the Law Society, the Bar Council or CILEx.

Professional Qualifications

Professional entry criteria for Chartered Legal Executives (i.e. Fellows): Chartered Legal Executives are eligible to apply where (i) a Qualifying Law Degree (QLD) is held; or (ii) the Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)/CPE has been completed; or (iii) where exams have been passed (i.e. a score of 50% or above achieved), at CILEx Level 6*, in all of the following seven foundation subjects in law:

  • Contract Law

  • Criminal Law

  • Equity and Trusts Law

  • European Union Law

  • Land Law

  • Public Law

  • Law of Tort

Note: There are specific requirements relating to academic achievement in the CILEx Level 6 exams where these are being used to demonstrate 2.1 degree equivalence as set out below.

Chartered Legal Executives should note that GLD will be willing to accept an, overall, average score of 65% or above across exams passed in the seven foundation subjects in law (where studied at CILEx Level 6) as demonstrating 2.1 degree equivalence (where a 2.1 degree is not held).