Vacancies in the Legal Aid Sector

Watkins Solicitors are recruiting an Education Paralegal. This is an excellent opportunity for a dedicated individual seeking a challenging yet rewarding role, who is looking to take the next step on their legal career path.

Watkins Solicitors is a multi-award-winning firm, nationally recognised for its expertise in family, education, human rights, property, and wills and probate law.
In 2025, they were named Regional Law Firm of the Year at the Bristol Legal Awards, alongside wins for Team of the Year for their Education team, and Rising Star of the Year award. They were also proud recipients of the 2025 Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year Award for outstanding work in family legal aid, including children’s rights. In the previous year, they were shortlisted for two national honours at the LexisNexis UK Family Law Awards for Family Law Firm of the Year – South and the Community Interaction Award. These accolades reflect their legal excellence, compassionate service, and commitment to community-focused practice.

Gold Jennings is recruiting a problem-solving Finance Officer with experience of accounts and legal billing (including legal aid) to work within their Practice Team to support their dynamic team of lawyers at their busy London office. You will be responsible for assisting in the preparation, submission, and management of invoices to clients and the claiming of costs from the Legal Aid Agency, which will include reviewing case files, time records, and disbursements to ensure accurate cost submissions. You will also play a vital role as the bridge between the firm’s outsourced cashiering service and fee-earners and the practice team to ensure all finance queries are dealt with promptly. You will also be responsible for dealing with office expenses and payments. This is a varied role that requires excellent organisational skills and the ability to support their team efficiently.

Gold Jennings is an award-winning civil liberties and human rights law firm representing claimants in novel and complex cases against the state. Their firm and their senior lawyers are highly ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and they pride themselves in providing a holistic and high-quality service to their clients. Gold Jennings is deeply committed to being a legal aid firm, and most of their work is publicly funded.

Gold Jennings is recruiting a Chief Operating Officer to oversee the financial and operational aspects of their expanding firm. The successful candidate will work closely with the firm’s Directors, have responsibilities for areas that include financial health, compliance, marketing and HR, and therefore play a leading role in the firm’s continuing growth. The position is for ambitious candidates who already have significant leadership and operational management experience, ideally within the legal sector and who meet the person specification. Experience of legal practice, and in particular, legal aid is highly desirable.

Gold Jennings is an award-winning civil liberties and human rights law firm representing claimants in novel and complex cases against the state. Their firm and their senior lawyers are highly ranked in Chambers and Partners and Legal 500 and they pride themselves in providing a holistic and high-quality service to their clients. Gold Jennings is deeply committed to being a legal aid firm, and most of their work is publicly funded.

Shelter is recruiting an enthusiastic individual with legal experience to join them as a Paralegal/Legal Adviser and help them deliver an effective local service for people experiencing housing issues in Merseyside. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key part in standing up to the housing emergency. You will help their solicitors to maintain an active caseload, enabling their clients to enforce their housing rights. Your role will be varied and will include taking instructions and witness statements, drafting letters, making applications, providing court representation and making sure time recording and income targets are met.

Shelter exists to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything. They need ambitious, passionate people to join them. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change they are striving to achieve. Their enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency.

Osbornes Law is recruiting for a full-time solicitor with experience in housing law to join their expanding and award-winning Housing and Social Care team. Experience in community care and public law would also be desirable, but not essential.

The role will provide an exciting opportunity for the successful solicitor to handle a diverse caseload.

Applications from solicitors of 2-year PQE and above will be considered.

The successful candidate will be given responsibility over their caseload from the outset and are expected to have good knowledge of the law, current policies and legal aid. The successful candidate will also be supported by a close team of colleagues within an open plan office.

Salaries are highly competitive, and benefits include flexible working and significant opportunities for learning and personal development.

Osbornes Law is a leading firm ranked in the Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners based in Camden Town. The team is currently ranked in Band 1 in the Legal 500 for Social Housing, and Band 3 for Public Law. The team is known for its diverse legal aid practice and commitment to clients. Two solicitors in the department were named Legal Aid Lawyer of the Year in 2019 in the Social & Welfare and Children’s Rights categories respectively. The team seek to take on complex and difficult legal challenges to help their clients and would welcome a dedicated solicitor who is interested in a varied and rewarding role to join the team.

The firm is also ranked as a leading law firm in The Times Best Law Firm Guide and recognised as an ‘Outstanding’ place to work by Best Companies including a top 5 ranking for best mid-sized company to work for in London and best law firm to work for in the UK.

Apply by CV and cover letter to Sandra Hillard at sandra.hillard@osborneslaw.com

Coram is recruiting a Head of Legal Aid and Billing. This role will provide leadership and management for CCLC particularly focused on the Legal Practice Unit’s legal aid billing operations. Through systematic and efficient management, the post-holder will play a pivotal role in CCLC’s financial and operational sustainability. The role will be accountable for maximising the unit’s legal aid billing in controlled work, certificated work and inter partes costs and will hold responsibility for the unit’s billing systems. It will also be responsible for private fees billing. The post-holder will oversee the smooth running of legal aid billing including through line management of the billing team.The post-holder will work very closely with legal, operations and administrative staff. The role will act as a key point of contact for a range of internal and external stakeholders including Coram’s central finance team who will support the role with grant fund management and overall accounting functions for CCLC. The post-holder will support the Managing Director of Legal Practice and Children’s Rights and department heads in the successful maintenance of their relationship with the Legal Aid Agency. Where appropriate they will be deputising for the Managing Director on legal aid and financial matters.

Coram is the UK’s oldest children’s charity founded by Thomas Coram in London helping vulnerable children and young people since 1739. Today, the Coram group helps more than one million children, young people, families and professionals every year by providing access to the skills and opportunities they need to thrive.

Asylum Aid is recruiting an Executive Director. You will be responsible for delivering on their strategy for impact. You will oversee their work to increase access to expert, trauma-informed legal representation to those in the asylum, trafficking and statelessness systems and lead their policy and strategic legal work to achieve systemic change that contributes towards their vision.

At Asylum Aid they work directly with vulnerable people and in partnership with other organisations and take the time needed to work through the complexity of each individual legal case and make sure Survivors are given the right support they need to live safely.

Wilson Solicitors are recruiting Billing Assistants to support their Immigration, Family and Public Law departments. These positions will be based in their Tottenham office. The role will include drawing up bills and costing files, and generally assisting in the smooth running of the billing department. At times when the need arises, the role will also include reception and switchboard cover. They require a self-motivated individual who has good administrative, oral and written communication skills as well as good attention to detail. You should be computer literate and able to work to tight deadlines within a team environment.

Wilson Solicitors are one of the leading firms in the UK specialising in civil liberties.

Miles & Partners is seeking a Court of Protection solicitor to join their Mental Capacity team. This is a great opportunity for the right candidate to join a highly regarded team of accredited specialists recognised in the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.

Miles and Partners is a niche firm of specialist solicitors located in London E1, close to Liverpool Street Station and the City. Founded in 1996 by 5 young lawyers who shared a vision of providing the highest level of professional service to the local community. Over the years, that vision has grown and we have developed an outstanding reputation for being approachable, accessible, and achieving the best possible results for our all of our clients, locally, regionally and internationally.