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Litigation Assistant (Injury Risk) - Dublin

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

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft Dublin is looking to recruit a Litigation Assistant to work with our Injury Risk Team.  We are seeking someone with litigation experience and who is accustomed to working in a busy team environment.

Role Responsibility

  • Assisting a small team of FEs in the day to day running of their caseload
  • Preparing correspondence and documents from digital dictation
  • Physical and electronic file management including filing, scanning, photocopying and archiving
  • Drafting, amending and formatting of legal documents and pleadings with a high degree of accuracy
  • Preparing briefs for Counsel and booklets for experts and Hearings
  • Issuing large documents such as briefs to Counsel/experts via Sharefile
  • Occasionally attending Court for Motions and Hearings
  • Liaising with experts, Counsels and all other parties as required
  • Arranging payments of experts' and Counsels' fees
  • Issuing bills to clients and assisting FEs with debt collection
  • Opening and closing of electronic and physical files
  • Arranging meetings/consultations and assisting with FEs diary management
  • Assist with expense claims and booking travel
  • Time recording of tasks in line with clients' SLAs
  • Updating MI databases
  • Any other ad-hoc file tasks as required

The Ideal Candidate

  • Proven experience of working as a Legal Secretary/Legal Executive a must
  • Experience of preparing briefs and booklets
  • Strong dictation experience with a typing speed of minimum 60 wpm
  • Proficient in use of Microsoft Office Suite, PDF Docs and ShareFile
  • Strong attention to detail and accuracy is essential
  • Excellent administration and organisational skills
  • Fast learner, confident in working on multiple different software systems simultaneously
  • Ability to work proactively on one's own initiative
  • Ability to draft correspondence when asked to do so
  • Ability to prioritise large workloads
  • Ability to multi-task and work to strict deadlines
  • Team orientated and collaborative with a flexible attitude
  • Professional telephone manner and excellent communication skills, both written and oral
  • The candidate should have a positive, helpful and cheerful attitude

About the Company

DAC Beachcroft Ireland has over 80 employees and is continuing to grow. We are a full service law firm with a diverse domestic and international client base.  We are part of DAC Beachcroft LLP, an international law firm comprising in excess of 2,500 staff and benefiting from the depth and reach of a legal network with coverage across Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and North America. Our clients benefit from the management and quality systems of a truly international law firm.

We are constantly developing our international pedigree, whilst maintaining a strong domestic focus, allowing us to service all our clients to the highest possible standard.

DAC Beachcroft Dublin holds certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and ISO27001, the information security standard and in 2013 achieved the Gold Investors in People award.

Application Details

We hope that you will decide to make an application to join us and look forward to discussing how DAC Beachcroft can help you on your career path and how you can help us to continue making our firm a success.

DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. 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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