On 1 January 1949, he was appointed as a judge in the Supreme court of Appeal in Jerusalem and the West Bank of Jordan.

[2][3] On 29 June 1949, he began practicing the legal profession, and in the meantime, on 18 August 1951, he took up the defense with a group of attorneys Jerusalem lawyers, namely Yahya Hammouda, Hanna Atallah, Jabra Al-Anqar, Issa Aqel, Nasri Nasr, Aziz Shehadeh, and Wafiq Younis Al-Husseini in the case the killing of Abdullah I bin Al Hussein.

[4] On 12 March 1952, he was appointed head of the municipal council of East Jerusalem and remained so until the end of 1955.

During this period, he carried out several projects to implement the necessary services for the holy city, including water and sewage projects, and opening the necessary roads for the city, in addition to expanding the borders[5][6] of the Jerusalem municipality to include the neighboring areas as well to the form it is now.

وفي 1955 جرت انتخابات بلدية، وترأس المجلس البلدي عدة رؤساء بالوكالة مثل عمر الوعري، وامين مجج، ثم عُيّن روحي الخطيب رئيسا للبلدية عام 1957.