Solicitor - Clinical Negligence NQ+
- Employer
- QED Legal
- Location
- England, Hampshire
- Salary
- £38000.00 - £60000 per annum
- Closing date
- 10 Oct 2017
- Reference
- BBBH14814
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- Practice area
- Clinical negligence
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
Solicitor - Clinical Negligence - NQ+
Clinical Negligence Solicitors are required for one of the leading UK legal networks with coverage across Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia-Pacific providing a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. .
Acting for the NHSLA, Medical Defence Union, NHS trusts, as well as private hospitals in the health market, our highly rated national clinical risk team has a proven track record in defending high value complex claims including cerebral palsy, oncology, paediatrics and plastic surgery.
The role provides a challenging caseload of defendant clinical negligence work on behalf of a wide range of clientele.
You will act as first and primary contact for clients on a day to day basis providing them with commercially focused legal advice, those at a more senior level will provide supervision and coaching to junior fee earners. In addition you will contribute to non-fee-earning activity e.g. knowledge sharing, training, client seminars, and business development and be expected to write articles for publication both for in-house and external publications.
The firm are looking for experience at all levels which should include defendant or claimant clinical negligence, or defendant insurance law. Experience gained within an NHSLA or MDU panel firm would be highly advantageous and strong technical skills and an ability to understand and work through complex issues.
A commercial and client focus perspective is required with an ability to operate with a high level of self-sufficiency yet know when to seek advice from senior members of the team.
You will work with market leading clientele at this highly prestigious firm with numerous rankings in Chambers UK and a multitude to Tier 1 and Tier 2 rankings in the Legal 500. As you would expect this represents an excellent career opportunity with an appropriate remuneration applicable to such a firm.
For further details please contact Gary Longmate in the first instance or register your interest through this ad online.
Company
QED
An acronym of the latin phrase quod erat demonstrandum which translates as "thus it is demonstrated" or "that which was to be demonstrated". It is most often used as an annotation at the end of a complex mathematical, scientific or philosophical argument to show that the author had proven what he had set out to prove. In recent times it has also been translated as "Quite Easily Done".
As a recruiter you have to network and speak to large amounts of people and lots of law firms to really understand the market and have the connections to match people with opportunity quickly when the time arises. A good recruiter needs to be Quick, Excellent and Dynamic in everything that they do. Allow the team at QED to demonstrate what they can do for your firm or your career.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE:
• Partner moves – both full equity and fixed share equity
• Team moves
• Firm Mergers / Bolt-on’s
• Succession / retirement planning
• In House Counsel
• Patent / Trademark Attorneys
• Other jurisdictions – placing lawyers into and from other countries
• Professional Support Lawyers
• Associate moves – focusing not just on team and culture fit but also client and work quality and room for future advancement.
• Assistant moves – lawyers cannot afford to make mistakes with their career moves. In the crucial early years exposure to the correct mentor and clients is essential.
• Legal professionals – FILEX, MILEX, ILEX, Licenced Conveyancers, paralegals, legal assistants and fee earners
• Support services - practice managers, COLP / COFA – regulatory and compliance, office managers, IT developers, case management specialists, law costs draftsmen and negotiators, legal secretaries, legal cashiers
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