Senior Associate (5-7 PQE) - Healthcare - Dublin

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft Dublin's Healthcare Team is looking to recruit a Senior Associate to join our Healthcare Team in Dublin.

DAC Beachcroft Dublin is a full service Law Firm with 100 colleagues. Our team of partners, lawyers and support staff work together to provide a client-led service, which responds swiftly and effectively to all matters. Since the inception of our Dublin office we have established ourselves as one of Ireland's fastest growing and most recognised firms.. We have achieved this by providing a unique offering which can be tailored to the specific requirements of each of our clients. We provide this bespoke service incorporating sound, pragmatic and commercial advice in a cost effective way.

Our Healthcare Team has been an integral part of this growth and our firm's success and it is once again expanding.  The Team acts for a wide variety of healthcare providers and practitioners to include GP's, Consultants, private hospitals, private medical clinics, dentists, diagnostic clinics, aesthetic clinics, laboratories and their Insurers. We provide advice on the defence of clinical  negligence claims,  regulatory advice on the changing legislative landscape and proactive sector specific advices which will ultimately minimise the possibility of claims arising or put our clients in the best position to defend themselves if they do.

Role Responsibility

Main responsibilities will include:

• Handling a caseload mainly focused on defending and advising on medical negligence claims and advisory services to Healthcare entities and practitioners.
• Becoming a trusted advisor for our clients and strengthening our connections with them through providing them with ongoing support and advice
• Playing a vital role in the development and promotion of the Team and the Firm  through business development, networking and profile raising activities, including contributing to marketing, training and knowledge sharing within the team and throughout the firm
• Assisting the associates and partners in the day to day running of the office overseeing the associated administrative tasks as and when appropriate
• Working closely with our colleagues in our other offices (particularly in UK and Madrid) tto develop cross border opportunities to assist and support our global client base in the Healthcare Sector and also to learn from and advise others on developments in other jurisdictions. 
• Handling confidential information in line with the firm’s data security protocols

The Ideal Candidate

• Qualified solicitor in Ireland ideally with significant post qualification experience
• Experience in the insurance litigation market is necessary
• Medical Negligence experience is essential
• Experience at Inquests an advantage
• Experience of using alternative forms of dispute resolution
• Strong technical skill and an ability to understand and work through issues
• A demonstrable ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an ‘academic’ approach to legal issues and to be client-focused
• Ability to operate a high level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority
• Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives and a willingness to assist in the success of DAC Beachcroft Dublin
• Team oriented and collegiate with an experience of and willingness to mentor, coach and supervise less experienced members of teams where appropriate
• 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
• Strong organisational skills to ensure a pragmatic and methodical approach to handling claims.

About the Company

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 LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals.  Whilst we do work with recruitment agencies, we will formally release those vacancies to instructed agencies 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 no introduction fee will be applicable.  Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com.

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