EL/PL Portal Fee Earner (Top 100 Law Firm)
- Employer
- QED Legal
- Location
- England, Greater Manchester, Manchester
- Salary
- Up to £18000.00 per annum
- Closing date
- 16 May 2019
- Reference
- BBBH24985
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- Practice area
- Personal injury
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- Not applicable
- Position
- Paralegal
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
This extremely successful Top 100 Law firm based in Manchester has a brand new opportunity to join their successful team of EL/PL fee earners.
There is a great opportunity to progress with multiple training contracts being provided to its work force annually.
Although you will be situated in the portal team, you will have a litigator who will mentor you to give you even more experience to help you grow into a strong legal professional.
Not only will you get this unique exposure to litigated files but you will also receive a generous salary of up to £22,000.
What work will you be doing?
- Dealing with a caseload of fast track EL and PL cases.
- Dealing with stages 1 (Investigation), 2 (Negotiation) and 3 (Litigation) of the Claims Portal process.
- Liaising with client and third parties to process claims within the legislative timeframes.
- Gathering and submitting any medical evidence to support claims.
- Negotiation of most beneficial settlement where appropriate.
- Preparing claim evidence for Court proceedings.
- It would be desirable if you have experience using Proclaim.
Ideally, you'll have at least 1 years' portal experience, but we would consider someone with 6 months plus experience who is adaptable.
If you feel like your not progressing and you have prior portal experience then this is a golden opportunity. Its not often you get offered the opportunity to progress at this rate.
All candidate applications are reviewed and shortlisted candidates will be notified within 24 hours of applying,
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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