Medical Malpractice Solicitor
Job Introduction
DAC Beachcroft are seeking a Medical Malpractice Solicitor with 0-5+ PQE to join our Bristol office.
This role represents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and passionate individual to join an award-winning, progressive and highly specialised team.
Our Clinical Risk cluster is the biggest nationally - handling a challenging but fulfilling caseload of defendant clinical negligence work - acting for a variety of clients, which will include work for independent healthcare providers, clinicians, surgeons, and medical malpractice insurers. Our cluster also works for NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts, and the MDU.
Key responsibilities of the role:
- Handle a challenging caseload of defendant clinical negligence work on behalf of dependent healthcare providers, surgeons and their med-mal insurers. This will include drafting pleadings, witness statements and letters of response, conducting face to face negotiations and mediation of claims, as well as preparing counter schedules.
- Act as first and primary contact for clients on a day to day basis providing them with commercially focused legal advice
- Adhering closely to client protocol and process
- Provide supervision and coaching to junior fee earners
- Make an appropriate contribution to non-fee earning activity e.g. knowledge sharing, training, client seminars, and business development
- Comply with the required standards for internal procedures e.g. financial
- Management of files, billing regimes etc. as well as the specific requirements of individual clients
- Writing articles for publication both for in-house and external publications
- Handle confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols
Key Technical/Knowledge:
Essential
- Experience in defendant or claimant clinical negligence, or defendant insurance law. Ideally 0-5+ PQE.
- Strong technical skills and an ability to understand and work through complex issues.
- A demonstrable ability to adopt a commercial perspective, rather than an 'academic' approach to legal issues and to be highly client focused.
- Ability to operate with a high level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority.
- Team oriented and collegiate, with an experience of and a willingness to mentor, coach and supervise less experienced members of teams where appropriate.
- Exposure to and success within business development activities.
- Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships, undertake client marketing and influence at all levels. Ability to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues, building up strong relationships.
- Strong organisation skills to ensure a pragmatic and methodical approach to handling a variety of clinical negligence claims simultaneously, through an IT case management system.
- Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.
- Able to handle a complex and constantly changing workload and to work under pressure.
- Detail conscious with a concern for quality.
Desirable
- Experience gained within an insurer panel firm would be preferable (but not essential), as would an understanding of the healthcare system, including knowledge of and the ability to deliver against client protocols and KPIs.
About DACB
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. 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 committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.
As a Disability Confident employer we will guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert. If this applies to you 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 team will be in touch.
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 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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