EL/PL Fraud Solicitor
- Employer
- SaccoMann
- Location
- England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Closing date
- 13 Feb 2025
- Reference
- NDA146628
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- Practice area
- Fraud, Personal injury
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 4 years, 5 years, 6 years, 7 years+
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details

Sacco Mann has been instructed on an exciting opportunity for a EL/PL Fraud Solicitor to join a highly regarded national team based in Manchester City Centre. The Casualty Fraud team specialises in defending EL/PL claims, and the role will involve handling your own caseload of fast-track and multi-track claims, focusing on fraud and claims validation for both private and public sector clients.
As a Casualty Fraud Solicitor, your role will include:
- Managing a caseload of defendant EL/PL and highways claims with a focus on fraud detection and validation.
- Handling claims involving housing disrepair, property damage, and other casualty matters.
- Liaising with clients, courts, witnesses, and opponents, conducting detailed liability investigations.
- Utilising specialist fraud detection intelligence resources for counter-fraud investigations.
- Drafting pleadings, preparing court documents, and ensuring compliance with service level agreements and key performance indicators.
- Achieving financial and chargeable targets while adhering to firm policies and procedures.
Skills and experience required:
- Qualified Solicitor with a minimum of 4 years PQE and demonstrable experience managing defendant EL/PL casualty claims.
- Experience in fraud-specific claims is highly desirable.
- Strong working knowledge of EL/PL, highways and housing law.
- Excellent communication, drafting and influencing skills.
- Proven ability to manage complex caseloads independently and achieve set targets.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Enthusiastic, adaptable, and a team player with excellent interpersonal skills.
Benefits:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid working
- Healthcare cover
- Pension plan and life insurance
- Employee assistance programs and discounts
If you are interested in this Manchester based Casualty Fraud Solicitor role within a supportive and forward-thinking team, we encourage you to apply. You can contact Nadine Ali at Sacco Mann for further information on 01618714759, or email your CV to nadine.ali@saccomann.com.
Company
Sacco Mann are specialist Legal Recruiters recognised as regional experts with a genuine interest in, as well as knowledge of, their marketplace. We are renowned for giving clear and straightforward career advice and true quality of service.
We have thirteen experienced consultants focussing on legal recruitment, encompassing the Commercial, General Practice, Public Sector and In House positions, both permanent and locum. In addition two consultants specialise within the Patents and Trademarks sector.
We feel that much of our success has been due to the fact that we:
- try to accurately guage and understand what both candidates and clients require and indeed that which they are able to offer and then bring the two together
- have a demonstrable knowledge of the marketplace. Fundamentally what you need is not merely someone who can post your CV to a practice, but someone whose strength of contacts within the firms can add value, ensuring that you are given proper consideration
- discuss each role with you thoroughly and get prior clearance before a CV is submitted. This is an extremely important for protecting confidentiality and avoiding duplication
- brief you fully prior to any interviews, ensuring that you know what the role entails and how the interview will be run. We also give you honest interview feedback - if you don't do very well in an interview you can always learn from the experience
- are accessible and return your calls
Why use Sacco Mann?
Principally because we believe that the points outlined above are fundamental. We enjoy recruitment, and we are good at it, because we genuinely enjoy assisting people make positive career moves. We don't shuffle paper because we know our marketplace and are therefore in a position to give reliable, knowledgeable and practical advice.
The vast majority of our applicants and clients are at pains to thank us for the advice and service that we provide and we believe the high level of referral business is a direct result of the fact that lawyers value our input.
- Leeds Tel: 0113 245 3338
- Manchester Tel: 0161 831 6890
- Midlands Tel: 0845 241 5644
- London Tel: 203 440 5628
- Website
- https://www.saccomann.com/
- Location
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Vantage Point
Hardman Street
Spinningfields
Manchester
M3 3HF
United Kingdom
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