Legal advice

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Levels

1. Awareness

You can:

• explain when colleagues need legal advice and how to get it
• take clear instructions and record the facts of a matter

2. Working

You can:

• prepare draft advice on routine matters for a lawyer to review
• answer straightforward questions using approved guidance
• identify the legal issues in a set of facts

3. Practitioner

You can:

• give independent legal advice in your areas of practice
• explain legal risk in plain English and recommend practical options
• advise on decisions with legal effect, such as contract awards, data sharing, and changes to services
• decide when to instruct external lawyers or counsel

4. Expert

You can:

• advise the board and executive on the organisation's most significant legal risks
• give definitive advice on novel, contentious, or high-value matters
• set the organisation's appetite for legal risk
• assure the quality of legal advice across the organisation, including external advice

Closest ESCO skills

• provide legal advice (exact match)
• advise on legal decisions (close match)
• analyse legal enforceability (narrow match)

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