Are you soon to be a notary and interested in broadening and deepening your knowledge as a legal advisor? Apply to us at Södertörn District Court!

Responsibilities

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

As a legal advisor, 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, resolve cases based on documents, and lead your own meetings and main hearings. You may also be involved in handling high-profile cases and take an active role in the court's media work.

You will work together with, and support, the judges, notaries, and court clerks of the adjudicating departments and contribute to developing routines and working methods. As a legal advisor, you ensure quality and continuity in the preparation routines of the adjudicating departments. You act as a sounding board for the notaries and clerks in the 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 legal advisor offers good opportunities to gain broad and relevant experience for a further career within the judiciary.

Qualifications

You who apply should have very good legal skills. Upon taking up the position as a legal advisor, you must have completed and approved notarial service at the district court with very good judgment.

As a person, you are service-oriented, self-driven, meticulous, and structured. You find it easy to understand legal issues and can handle large amounts of information. 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 orally 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 governmental values that guide the operations of Sweden's courts. Before 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 covers 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 see interviews with them on our website: Meet our employees - Södertörn District Court

Application

Welcome with your application by April 7th. To assess your application, we ask you to attach your CV and cover letter. The position is a fixed-term employment until April 30, 2027, and we hope you can start as soon as possible. We look forward to your application!

To ensure an inclusive and fair recruitment process, Sweden's 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.