St Kilda Principal Lawyer Position Description Page 2
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3Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Organisation Leadership
Work closely with other staff and Board of Management to ensure a consistent approach is
applied across the organisation, specifically:
o Planning, developing and review)+/ (0" .-/&+)$&().+#$ $"-*)'"$6 projects and
partnerships
o Developing and implementing strategies to deal with any human resource issues in
consultation with the Administrator
o Developing and reviewing program and funding opportunities
o Participating effectively in a range of projects and strategic planning initiatives
o Co-ordinating and developing pro bono partnerships with legal firms
o Developing and reviewing SKLS#$ workplans and annual activity targets
o Providing high-level advice and reports to the Board on issues relating to the
provision of legal services
Promote sound governance processes within the organisation to maintain best practice in
the delivery of the legal advice, information & casework services
Legal Practice Management
The Principal Lawyer will:
Ensure the quality of advice, casework, referrals and legal work undertaken by the service is
maintained at a high standard including legal advice and casework provided by night service
legal volunteers
Ensure that SKLS operates in accordance with the Legal Practice Act and the Professional
Indemnity Insurance (PII) requirements, including participation in the Federation of
Community Legal Services (Victoria) PII monitoring program
Manage, supervise and monitor &55 (0" S"-*)'"#$ 5"/&l practitioners, including Legal
Volunteers and Legal Placement Students
Hold regular casework meetings and reviews with legal staff
Liaise with the Volunteer Co-Ordinator and the evening Volunteer Lawyer Co-Ordinators to
ensure that all aspects of advice and casework conducted by the night legal volunteers is
adequately supervised and monitored.
Attend the night service sessions on a regular basis to liaise with the Volunteer Lawyer Co-
ordinators and other volunteer lawyers.
Ensure all lawyers '.3458 1)(0 (0" S"-*)'"#$ '&$"1.-2 /9),"5)+"$ &+, 4-.*)," 0)/0 :9&5ity
and professional legal work.
Ensure that SKLS legal practice operates within the organisational policies and procedures
Ensure that all government statistical data reporting requirements pertaining to the legal
practice are met.
Participate in the development and implementation of service delivery initiatives and service
extension
Conduct regular case reviews and staff performance appraisals as required
Maintain a caseload, which may involve limited court appearances and outreach visits
Liaise regularly with the Administrator in relation to administration, staffing and management
issues
Community Legal Education, Community Development and Law Reform
Ensure monitoring of advice and casework is undertaken with respect to identification of law
reform, test cases and/or policy issues and maintain regular liaison with other staff
particularly the CLE and Law Reform Lawyers and Board members and volunteers where
appropriate
To be involved in legal education and law reform activities with other staff where appropriate
To be responsible for monitoring of CLE, publications and any other legal materials used for
and by SKLS, law reform and policy submissions and media releases as appropriate to
ensure legal accuracy and mitigate legal risk.
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