Property Casualty Senior Associate (4-6+yr PQE), London

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft is recognised as a leading market practice in property insurance, providing a comprehensive service that includes handling a broad range of coverage, liability, defence and recovery issues, from high-profile,multi-million pound major incidents and complicated policy coverage issues to dealing with modest value volume property claims and one-off, ad-hoc claims. Their clients include the majority of property insurers of all types, predominantly with a UK focus.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Associate to join the team where you will gain exposure to a wide variety of cases, large amounts of contact with clients and senior management, all whilst working in an environment that provides a large degree of autonomy and a good work/life balance.

Role Responsibility

• Managing caseload and/or supporting Partners and colleagues on larger complex cases.
• Analysing and applying legal principles and facts to derive technically sound, commercial strategies for complex cases.
• Drafting and reviewing correspondence, reports and litigation documents.
• Maintaining caseload in good organisational shape and in accordance with client quality and service level agreements.
• Co-ordinating instructions and workflow for key client accounts, comprising triaging instructions and delegating workload to the most appropriate team member.
• Supervising junior team members across a case from start to finish.
• Managing and develop junior members of the team.
• Developing an understanding of the client's, and our business, and how the two fit together.

The Ideal Candidate

• Ideally a 4-6yr PQE (can be flexible for either more junior or senior) lawyer with experience working in the Property Casualty space.
• The ability to run your own caseload and work in an autonomous fashion.
• Strong academic record.
• Capable of analysing and applying legal principles to a complex factual scenario, with a view to achieving a commercial resolution for the client.
• Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues.
• The ability to think and act quickly and under pressure for clients who find themselves in crisis.
• Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.

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!

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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