Solicitor / Paralegal / Chartered Legal Executive
Job Introduction
Join Our Dynamic Casualty Injury Team!
DAC Beachcroft is excited to announce an opportunity for an experienced Paralegal, Solicitor, or Chartered Legal Executive to join our Casualty Injury Team. In this role, you will assist a Senior Solicitor on complex, high-value and strategic defendant personal injury claims, predominantly over £250k. This is a fantastic chance to work on challenging cases and grow your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.
This assistant role is perfect for anyone looking to diversify into complex and catastrophic claims. You will have the chance to build relationships with leading names in the insurance industry and corporate businesses, many of whom are household names. This is a unique opportunity to expand your professional network, gain valuable experience working on high value claims whilst also learning from a leading catastrophic injury lawyer.
We are accepting applicants from all over the UK, offering the flexibility to work either remotely, in-office or hybrid working.
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
- Assist on Complex and Catastrophic Claims: Work alongside a leading lawyer in managing a number of complex and catastrophic claims to ensure that deadlines are met and cases are handled proactively to conclusion.
- Manage Your Own Caseload: Take charge of your own modest caseload whilst building relationships with key clients and their claims handlers, ensuring deadlines are met and cases are managed proactively to conclusion (if you wish to run a modest caseload).
- Meet Client Needs: Carry out work effectively to meet the needs of clients, the commercial requirements of the firm, and quality standards.
- Working collaboratively: Where required, work collaboratively with other teams ensuring that you build your internal network of contacts.
- Achieve Financial Targets: Work towards achieving agreed financial targets which includes a daily hours target of 6.5.
- Provide Accurate MI: Ensure prompt and accurate provision of MI using our state of the art MI management system.
- Support Case Strategy: Support a clear case strategy, ensuring cases run smoothly and balance the commercial interests of both the firm and the client.
- Apply Expertise: Apply appropriate and current technical expertise and case law, developing your own capabilities .
- Manage Risk: Effectively manage risk and compliance issues within each claim, escalating any emerging problems promptly.
- Engage with Clients: Support your lead lawyer by engaging with clients and supporting business development plans to maximize opportunities to meet and build rapport, always acting as an ambassador of the firm.
Who you are
- 0-5 years’ experience in a similar role, ideally with EL/PL experience. However, we are happy to consider candidates with alternative backgrounds such as Claimant, disease, volume Defendant work, clinical negligence, profin etc.
- Some experience in Multi Track or Fast Track Claims.
- Somone who is enthusiastic about joining a well-established and highly thought of complex and catastrophic team and who can see themselves developing into a complex lawyer in their own right in the future.
- A candidate who seeks exposure to clients and who is willing to build their own external and internal network of contacts.
- A high level of personal compliance with firm protocols and procedures
- Good legal knowledge relevant to their area of expertise, albeit training and support will be given.
- Good organisation skills, able to work to deadlines, prioritise own workload and meet conflicting demands.
- High standard of written and oral communication skills.
- Able to produce work to a high standard, with excellent attention to detail and concern for quality of service.
- Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
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, from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for 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 the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.
We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 141 practice area rankings across Chambers UK 2023 and The Legal 500 2023 and over 230 individual lawyers ranked in the two guides.
Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. Our most recent accolades include being named the top winner at the 2022 Legal Innovation Awards with two awards, bringing home two National Insurance Awards in 2023 for ‘Insurance Law’ and ‘Innovative Product’, winning ‘Legal Adviser of the Year – Public’ at both the 2021 and 2022 HealthInvestor Awards and ‘Legal Adviser of the Year – Private’ at the 2021 awards, and being named ‘Arbitration Team of the Year’ at the 2022 British Legal Awards. Regionally in the UK, we were named ‘Law Firm of the Year – Large’ in the 2022 Yorkshire Legal Awards and ‘Innovators of the Year’ at the 2022 Bristol Law Society Awards.
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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