Associate - Professional & Commercial Risk (Construction)

Job Introduction

Associate, Professional & Commercial Risk (Construction) - Manchester

Are you looking for a role where you will be intellectually challenged, but treated with respect?  Or an environment where you can enjoy industry-leading work quality without compromising on client contact and business development?  Or a position that offers genuine flexibility to allow you to meet your personal and work commitments?  An opportunity in our Professional and Commercial Risk team may be for you.

​​​As part of our growth and strategy, our Northern Professional and Commercial Risk team is looking to recruit an additional 3+ PQE qualified solicitor to join the team in Manchester. The individual will play an active role in the continued growth and success of the team in collaboration with our wider practice in the North, nationally and internationally.  The team acts for all the main insurance companies and insured professionals in the supply chain.  We deal with the full spectrum of insurance work from policy cover, recovery and strategic advice to insurers.

Role Responsibility

As part of the team you will have:

• The opportunity to interact on a regular basis with clients.  You will share your knowledge of key issues and provide meaningful advice and support.
• A mixed workload of professional negligence claims involving a wide variety of professionals, plus an opportunity to become involved in Contractors All Risks claims.
• Responsibility for conducting both pre-action and litigated matters, providing real-time project support, as well as assisting more senior fee earners.
• A good understanding and experience of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation.
• Direct engagement with experts and counsel, directing our work with both.

Firm wide:

• Understands DAC Beachcroft is an international firm. Works with awareness of this structure to operate as one team/brand.
• Actively operates in the best interests of the firm at all times internally and externally.
• Operates in a regulated environment, effectively managing risk and compliance issues including data security.
• Works in partnership with others to manage and mitigate commercial risk.

The Ideal Candidate

Due to our growth and the reshaping strategy, we welcome qualified solicitors with existing litigation experience, in any discipline.  We are open-minded about the qualification level of the candidates we see: we are most interested in what you think you can bring to the role and the team, and whether we are the right fit for you.

You will:

• Have very good relationship and client handling skills, commensurate with experience.
• Be able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues.
• Have a good level of self-sufficiency, and manage a caseload commensurate with experience.
• Be change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.
• Be team oriented and collegiate, with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
• Demonstrate a willingness to work hard as part of a highly ambitious and driven team to help it continue to develop and to achieve its objectives.

About the Company

About DAC Beachcroft

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're 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-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.  In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. 

Working with us

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. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as 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 are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role.  If this applies to you and you feel you meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy as set out in this advert then please contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the Recruitment team will be in touch.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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