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Clinical Negligence Solicitor (0-8PQE)

Employer
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Location
England, Hampshire, Winchester
Salary
£28000 - £60000 per annum + Good Package
Closing date
15 Oct 2019
Reference
EF51443

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Solicitor - Clinical Negligence (NQ-8PQE)

Winchester

Competitive Salary

A top tier defendant law firm are seeking an experience Solicitor to join their Clinical Negligence team in Bristol.

The successful Clinical Negligence Solicitor will handle a challenging high value defendant clinical negligence caseload. This will include drafting pleadings, witness statements and letters of response, liaison with the health bodies, conducting face to face negotiations and mediation of claims as well as preparing counter schedules of damages in high value claims.

Main Duties include:

* Act as first and primary contact for clients on a day to day basis providing them with commercially focused legal advice.
* Make an appropriate contribution to non fee-earning activity e.g. knowledge sharing, training, client seminars, and writing of articles.
* Comply with the required standards for internal procedures e.g. financial management of files, billing regimes, etc as well as the specific requirements of individual clients.
* Support marketing and business development activity within the team e.g. attending marketing events and client training.
* Provide supervision and coaching to junior fee earners.
* Writing articles for publication both for in-house and external publications.

Experience Required:

* A Solicitor with experience in defendant or claimant clinical negligence, or defendant insurance law typically to have been gained 1+ years post qualification.
* Excellent relationship and client handling skills.
* Exposure to and success within business development activities.
* Able to handle a complex and constantly changing workload and to work under pressure.

Apply now for immediate consideration!

emily.flewitt@douglas-scott.co.uk

Please contact Emily Flewitt, Legal Recruitment Consultant, to discuss the role in more detail or apply through the vacancy for immediate consideration.

Douglas Scott are a legal recruitment expert and the UK's leading law firms trust us with their legal vacancies. We are a regulated recruitment consultancy and will discuss this role and seek your approval before submitting an application directly to the decision maker.

Company

Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment are multi-award winning legal recruitment experts.

Our business – put simply – is to remove the pain points candidates may otherwise experience on their journeys.
Sure, we act for legal professionals of all levels making lateral moves, taking steps up the ladder or looking for contract legal opportunities.
And yes we can boast a network of connections that spans nationwide private practice, the UK’s in house legal departments and now the Middle East, Asia and the Far East.
But we are the only REC and APSCO affiliated legal recruitment specialist with an ISO9001 accredited quality management system and the Investors In People Gold Standard award.
And by externally validating our day to day activities in the wider business community we have been able to place customer experience at the heart of our business proposition.
Which means people like dealing with our team – a very experienced, settled and happy bunch they epitomise the Douglas Scott brand personality and will demonstrate a genuine interest in you and your career.      

 

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0161 233 6360
Location
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
No1 Spinningfields
1 Hardman Square, Spinningfields
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3EB
GB

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