Solicitor / Chartered Legal Executive / Experienced Paralegal
Job Introduction
We are looking for Solicitors, Chartered Legal Executives or Experienced Paralegals to join our market leading Fraud team in CSG at DAC Beachcroft.
Our Fraud team is a specialised multiple award-winning and dynamic team of lawyers defending both pre-litigated and litigated technical claims. It has a reputation for robustly defending fraud insurance claims and proactively tackling those organisations and professional enablers driving the claims, particularly within our projects and organised fraud specialisms. The team adopts a collaborative approach where both reactive and proactive investigation is promoted, working hand in hand with our clients and law enforcement agencies such as IFED and the new Regional Fraud teams.
This role offers office based, hybrid or remote working but you may be asked to come into our Birmingham office at least once a month or for training and client events as required.
The leadership team comprises Associates, Legal Directors and Partners who are very experienced and well respected by clients and who will help to support you to succeed.
What work will you do?
We have roles available across our Motor, Casualty and Vehicle Hire teams, work includes:
- Defending and investigating exaggerated claims, fabricated claims, fabricated accident circumstances, substituted injury, staged accidents and organised fraud.
- Speaking with clients and interviewing witnesses.
- Analysing evidence and asking questions of experts.
- Instructing our intelligence team to conduct investigation.
- Considering sanctions to include recovery of costs, injunctions, committal proceedings and police referrals.
Our work has resulted in a number of outstanding successes for our clients including findings of fundamental dishonesty in civil courts, committals to prison for contempt of court, Appeal wins, police referrals and remedies for recovery of costs. The success of the team is due to innovative legal strategies, the use of sophisticated data analysis, our people and their expertise.
What’s in it for you?
- High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance - https://jobs.dacbeachcroft.com/whats-in-it-for-you/
- A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits)
- Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding
- In person and remote social events
- Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, which aligns closely to our cultural principles (Determined, Clear, Creative and Supportive). If you are excited about this role and being part of our culture, but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
What you will do
- Be responsible for a caseload of predominantly litigated claims, with an appropriate level of supervision, potentially across a number of different clients. These claims will all have fraud concerns and be managed under Delegated and Non-Delegated authority agreements.
- Act as a point of contact for clients, demonstrating a level of knowledge and skill commensurate with experience.
- Ensure full compliance with clients' SLAs and DAC Beachcroft's internal protocols.
- Demonstrate a high level of financial management in respect of own portfolio.
- Achieve annual billing budget and record 1440 chargeable hours per year (if full time).
- Support marketing and business development activity within the team e.g. attending marketing events and client training as required.
- Build an awareness of the Firm's other services, developing effective internal and external networks.
- Maintain an awareness of the firm's strategies and plans.
- Maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications and meeting Solicitors Regulatory Authority CPD requirements, where necessary.
- Treat confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols.
- Prompt and accurate completion of MI.
Who you are
- Solicitor / Chartered Legal Executive / Experienced Paralegal with previous experience or demonstrable interest in this area of law,
- Ideally experience of litigation preferably gained within a personal injury environment, but this is not essential and we are open to candidates who have trained in a different area of law.
- Some experience of fraud would be beneficial but also not essential, as the successful candidate will be fully trained to appropriately defend fraudulent insurance claims.
- Sound knowledge of the Civil Procedure Rules.
- Confident negotiator and communicator.
- Lateral thinker with strong investigation and analytical skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative without close supervision.
- A team player with a collegiate approach to knowledge sharing and problem solving.
- A commercial perspective to legal issues.
- Demonstrate alignment with the Firm’s Cultural Principles (Clear, Creative, Determined and Supportive).
- Reliable and professional behaviour demonstrated at all times.
About DAC Beachcroft
We are a leading international legal business with over 2,900 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, 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.
What you need to know about applying
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 csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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