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Defendant Personal Injury Solicitor

Employer
Lipson Lloyd Jones - North
Location
England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
Salary
£30000 - £45000 per annum
Closing date
2 Sep 2018
Reference
67644/67640

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Practice area
Personal injury
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
Newly qualified, 1 year, 2 years, 4 years, 5 years
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

This internationl law firm is looking for solicitors NQ-5PQE to join the EL/PL personal injury teams in either the Manchester or Leeds team

This is a permanent role within our Manchester or Leeds Casualty team. The purpose of this role is to run a case load of EL/PL casualty claims with a value up to £50,000. Day to day responsibilities will include:

* Running a varied case load of litigated work with the appropriate levels of supervision. These will include cases where liability is disputed.
* Achieve a minimum budgeted annual target of 1440 chargeable hours per year.
* Hit, maintain and apply a consistent approach to all individual targets of financial performance, realisation rates, settlement rate and average claim spend
* Support marketing and business development activity within the team e.g. attending marketing events and client training
* Assume responsibility for quality control and benchmark compliance on own caseload, including accuracy and timeliness of management reporting and information.
* Maintain an awareness of firm's procedures and strategies
* Maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications
* Handling confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols

Key skills

Essential:
* A legal executive or paralegal with experience of running a case load of EL/PL claims for 1- 2 years is essential.


* A keen interest and enthusiasm for injury work and the demands of our clients
* Able to adopt a commercial perspective to legal issues with a concern for quality of service
* A confident communicator who can communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written form
* Excellent organisational skills and able to effectively prioritise and manage own workload
* Detail conscious and able to produce work to a high standard
Desirable:
* Able to work on own initiative as well as to work with and learn from supervisors and other members of the department
* A team player with a flexible and self-motivated approach
* Able to work under pressure in order to meet required deadlines

The team

The Claims Solutions team advises insurers and corporate clients in their defence of claims of all values, types and complexity. Our National team whose clients are a mix of leading names in the insurance industry as well as household name corporates, deal with all aspects of defendant litigation, to include catastrophic injury, motor, casualty, disease, product and health and safety. Increasingly, the team is getting involved in pre-emptive advice on these issues as well as dispute resolution.

Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience required. However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfill this kind of work.

Company

No two candidates are the same, so recruitment should never be a numbers game. Offering a unique blend of insight, professionalism, dedication and enthusiasm, the accent at Lipson Lloyd-Jones is on ensuring the perfect chemistry between client and candidate.

Lipson Lloyd-Jones has been a major player in the legal recruitment sector since 1987, but our philosophy has changed little since then. In a marketplace increasingly populated by faceless web sites and mega-agencies, Lipson Lloyd-Jones has remained resolutely independent, the human face of recruitment, fully committed to treating each candidate as an individual.

Our mission is to match the right candidate to the right job. Simple? With our wealth of experience, focus, contacts and understanding of the legal recruitment milieu, it can be.

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