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Construction Insurance Associate (5PQE+) - Glasgow

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

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.

We provide expert legal advice to clients across an engaging mix of professional disciplines including Construction professionals and Engineers, Professional Indemnity, Financial Institutions, Directors and Officers, Cyber, Warranty and Indemnity, and Construction.  Our teams work collaboratively across these disciplines and, whilst everyone will have their area of particular expertise, we encourage cross-working so colleagues have genuine variety in their work and can use their rounded expertise to provide creative, bespoke solutions for our clients.

So, why should you be excited about a career with us?  Our team is empowered to develop their own client contacts and relationships from the start of their careers; you will see how your contribution directly impacts on your clients and understand how the service you provide helps them.  We are very proud of our client base, who provide us with top-quality instructions.  We have the backing of a truly international firm with over 2,500 colleagues across 9 countries and with international associations further bolstering our capabilities.

We encourage diversity by offering the opportunity to bring your whole self to work, underpinned by our employer brand of A Life That Works.  Our team are very busy and work hard, but we offer genuine flexibility to allow you to meet your personal and work commitments – and that flexibility won’t disappear post-Covid.  Across our team, from our emerging talent to our senior leadership, you won’t find a closed door, real or virtual.  Read on for more information about our specific vacancy and the firm as a whole.

Role Responsibility

As part of our growth and strategy, we are looking to recruit a 5+PQE Construction Insurance Associate to work alongside a partner to build a practice out of our Glasgow office.

The individual will play an active role in the development, growth and success of the team in collaboration with our wider practice across Scotland, the North of England, nationally and internationally.  You will act for all the main insurers and their developer, contractor and consultant insureds and will deal with the full spectrum of construction insurance work, across professional indemnity, project and CAR policies,  involving policy cover, defence of claims and recovery.

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 support and meaningful and strategic advice.
  • You will also have the ability to form and develop direct relationships with insurer and construction clients.
  • A mixed workload of construction claims involving a wide variety of clients and subject matter.
  • Responsibility for having conduct of pre-action and litigated matters, supervising more junior members of staff but with the opportunity to assist more senior fee earners on large / complex matters.
  • A good understanding and experience of alternative dispute resolution.

The Ideal Candidate

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

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, 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.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

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.

Application Details

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.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment 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 recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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