Are you soon to be notarized and interested in broadening and deepening your knowledge as a preparation lawyer? Apply to us at Södertörn District Court!

Job Responsibilities

Your role as a preparation lawyer is essentially distinct from that of a notary. It is a role for those who want to combine legal analysis with leadership, coordination, and pedagogical work in an important part of the legal chain.

As a preparation lawyer, you play a key role in the work of the adjudicating departments and in the development of our notaries, where you are responsible for internal training initiatives.

The role also includes qualified legal work where you independently prepare cases, conduct legal investigations, write proposals for decisions, adjudicate cases based on documents, and lead your own meetings and main hearings. You may also be involved in handling large, high-profile cases and have the opportunity to conduct legal investigations, write draft judgments, and take an active role in the court's media work.

You will work alongside and support the judges, notaries, and court clerks of the adjudicating departments and contribute to developing routines and work methods. As a preparation lawyer, you ensure quality and continuity in the preparation routines of the adjudicating departments. You serve as a sounding board for the notaries and clerks in ongoing preparation work and participate with your expertise in one of the many working groups at the court, such as the working group for criminal cases, youth cases, family cases, or dispositive civil cases.

The work as a preparation lawyer offers good opportunities to gain broad and relevant experience for a further career within the judiciary.

Qualifications

Applicants should have excellent legal skills. Upon taking up the position as a preparation lawyer, you must have completed and approved notarial service at a district court with very good reviews.

As a person, you are service-oriented, self-driven, meticulous, and structured. You have an easy time understanding legal issues and can handle large amounts of information. A good ability to express yourself verbally and in writing in Swedish is a prerequisite. You also have a very good ability to collaborate and communicate both in writing and verbally with the public, colleagues, and external actors.

Great emphasis will be placed on your personal qualities. Therefore, we apply competency-based recruitment and may use tests as part of the selection process. To be considered for employment with us, you need to be deemed suitable. This means that you uphold democratic values and act in accordance with the state values that govern the operations of Sweden's courts. Prior to employment, we conduct background checks.

About Södertörn District Court

Södertörn District Court is one of the largest district courts in the country with around 250 employees. Our jurisdiction includes the municipalities of Botkyrka, Haninge, Huddinge, and Nynäshamn, as well as Söderort within Stockholm Municipality. We work in modern premises in Flemingsberg, Huddinge, near the commuter train station.

Would you like to meet your future colleagues? Read about our employees and watch interviews with them on our website: Meet our employees - Södertörn District Court (https://www.domstol.se/sodertorns-tingsratt/om-tingsratten/organisation/mot-vara-medarbetare/)

Application

Welcome with your application by January 31. To assess your application, we ask you to attach your CV and cover letter. The position is a special fixed-term employment for one year, and we hope you can start as soon as possible. We look forward to your application!

To ensure an inclusive and fair recruitment process, the Swedish Courts apply competency-based recruitment. We kindly but firmly decline direct contact with staffing and recruitment companies as well as sellers of additional job advertisements.