- Stellenbosch
- Salary: Market Related
- Job Type: Contract
- Sectors: Legal Research
- Reference: RG04/262/0924
Vacancy Details
Employer: Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch University
Faculty of Law
Law Clinic
Candidate Legal Practitioner (Candidate Attorney) (Two posts)
(Job Level 11)
(Two-year full-time fixed-term contract)
Ref. RG04/262/0924
The Law Clinic operates as a fully-fledged attorneys’ office, delivering free legal services to the indigent, whilst at the same time training final year law students and candidate legal practitioners in the practical application of the law.
Duties:
Entering into, and abiding by, the required tripartite contract of service learning with a principal attorney and the Legal Practice Council. Duties include:
• Providing support to other practitioners within the firm on all aspects of legal practice.
• Assisting in the preparation of matters for trials or hearings.
• Conducting research and preparing legal opinions.
• Attending consultations with clients, witnesses and experts.
• Attending court appearances, including pre-trial conferences and trial proceedings.
• Liaising with counsel, experts, clients and opponents.
• Attending to the day-to-day management of files under the supervision of other practitioners.
• Drafting agreements, letters and other legal documents.
• Assisting and supporting students as well as any teaching offered by the Law Clinic.
• Conducting other daily administrative and legal practices.
Required Skills
- An LLB Qualification.
- Fluent (Verbal And Written) In English And Afrikaans.
- Good Legal Writing Skills.
Candidate Requirements
Requirements:
• An LLB qualification.
• Fluent (verbal and written) in English and Afrikaans.
• Good legal writing skills.
• The ability to work as part of a team and independently.
• The ability and willingness to work outside office hours, including on weekends as may be required from time to time.
• The ability to maintain good interpersonal relationships.
• The ability to work under pressure.
• The ability to work on own initiative.
• Sharing the values upon which the Law Clinic is founded.
• The ability to function effectively in a multicultural environment.
Recommendations:
• Relevant prior work experience.
• Existing knowledge of and familiarity with the work of the Law Clinic.
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About Stellenbosch University
Stellenbosch University is recognised as one of the four top research universities in South Africa. It takes pride in the fact that it has one of the country’s highest proportions of postgraduate students of which almost ten percent are international students.
The University lies in the picturesque Jonkershoek Valley in the heart of the Western Cape Winelands. The University has ten faculties, of which eight – AgriSciences, Arts and Social Sciences, Education, Engineering, Law, Science, Theology and the larger part of Economic and Management Sciences - are located on the main campus in Stellenbosch with the Faculty of Health Sciences situated on the Tygerberg campus and the Faculty of Military Science in Saldanha. The University's Business School is situated at the Bellville Park campus.
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