Solicitor/ Chartered Legal Executive
hace 2 semanas
DAC Beachcroft is excited to announce an opportunity for a Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive to join our Casualty Injury Team. In this role, you will assist a Senior Solicitor on complex, high-value and strategic defendant personal injury claims, predominantly over £250k. This is a fantastic chance to work on challenging cases and grow your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.
This assistant role is perfect for anyone looking to diversify into complex and catastrophic claims. You will have the chance to build relationships with leading names in the insurance industry and corporate businesses, many of whom are household names. This is a unique opportunity to expand your professional network, gain valuable experience working on high value claims whilst also learning from a leading catastrophic injury lawyer.
We are accepting applicants from all over the UK, offering the flexibility to work either remotely, in-office or hybrid working.
Overview of the Role
Assist on Complex and Catastrophic Claims: Work alongside a leading lawyer in managing a number of complex and catastrophic claims to ensure that deadlines are met and cases are handled proactively to conclusion.
Manage Your Own Caseload: Take charge of your own modest caseload whilst building relationships with key clients and their claims handlers, ensuring deadlines are met and cases are managed proactively to conclusion (if you wish to run a modest caseload).
Meet Client Needs: Carry out work effectively to meet the needs of clients, the commercial requirements of the firm, and quality standards.
Working collaboratively: Where required, work collaboratively with other teams ensuring that you build your internal network of contacts.
Achieve Financial Targets: Work towards achieving agreed financial targets which includes a daily hours target of 6.5.
Provide Accurate MI: Ensure prompt and accurate provision of MI using our state of the art MI management system.
Support Case Strategy: Support a clear case strategy, ensuring cases run smoothly and balance the commercial interests of both the firm and the client.
Apply Expertise: Apply appropriate and current technical expertise and case law, developing your own capabilities.
Manage Risk: Effectively manage risk and compliance issues within each claim, escalating any emerging problems promptly.
Engage with Clients: Support your lead lawyer by engaging with clients and supporting business development plans to maximize opportunities to meet and build rapport, always acting as an ambassador of the firm.
What you will do
Assist with the running of complex claims to ensure that deadlines are met and cases managed proactively to conclusion.
Effectively running of own modest caseload to ensure deadlines are met and cases managed proactively to conclusion (if the candidate wishes to run a modest caseload).
Ensure work is carried out effectively to meet the needs of the clients, the commercial requirements of the firm and the quality standards to include:
Adherence to internal and client SLAs, KPIs and protocols.
Achievement of agreed financial targets.
Prompt billing and collection of WIP and disbursements.
Prompt and accurate provision of MI.
Supporting a clear case strategy which is adhered to, ensuring cases are run smoothly and balance the commercial interests of both the Firm and the client.
Applying appropriate and current technical expertise and case law.
Effectively managing risk and compliance issues within each case, ensuring any emerging problems are escalated promptly to their Supervisor in the first instance.
Engaging with clients where appropriate to maximise opportunities to meet and build rapport with clients, at all times acting as an ambassador of the firm.
Who you are
0-5 years' experience in a similar role, ideally with EL/PL experience. However, we are happy to consider candidates with alternative backgrounds such as Claimant, disease, volume Defendant work, clinical negligence, profin etc.
Some experience in Multi Track or Fast Track Claims.
Enthusiastic about joining a well-established and highly thought of complex and catastrophic team and who can see themselves developing into a complex lawyer in their own right in the future.
A candidate who seeks exposure to clients and who is willing to build their own external and internal network of contacts.
A high level of personal compliance with firm protocols and procedures.
Good legal knowledge relevant to their area of expertise, albeit training and support will be given.
Good organisation skills, able to work to deadlines, prioritise own workload and meet conflicting demands.
High standard of written and oral communication skills.
Able to produce work to a high standard, with excellent attention to detail and concern for quality of service.
Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
About DAC Beachcroft
We are a leading international legal business with over 2,900 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.
We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK's top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK's top-12 housebuilders.
Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com .
What you need to know about applying
At DAC Beachcroft, we don't just accept your differences we celebrate them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you're good at what you do, come as you are. We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.
We also want you to be at your very best. Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.
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