Solicitor - Marine (NQ - 2 years PQE)
- Employer
- Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
- Location
- Scotland, Aberdeen
- Salary
- £40000.00 - £60000.00 per annum + Good Package
- Closing date
- 22 Nov 2019
- Reference
- EF53487
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- Practice area
- Maritime and shipping
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- PQE
- Newly qualified, 1 year, 2 years, 3 years
- Position
- Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Job Details
Solicitor - Litigation / Insurance & Risk /Marine (NQ - 2 years PQE)
Aberdeen
This is a great opportunity to join a growing team providing a broad range of legal support to a diverse client base.
The Insurance and Risk team represents corporates, insurers and loss adjusters in claims and disputes in the Court of Session, and Sheriff Courts up and down the country. You will be in the marine sector group involved in dealing with the advising on the legal/technical/tactical aspects of defence of personal injury and Health & Safety claims arising from on and offshore incidents. Much of the work will have a marine or oil and gas dimension.
The successful applicant will assist and advise not only insurers but also provide direct assistance to ship owners, oil and gas operators, drillers and other contractors, charterers, cargo owners, crewing agencies, ferry operators, fishing businesses, ports and harbours. There will be health and safety investigations of incidents with MCA, MAIB and AAIB involvement, HSE prosecutions and FAIs.
You will also assist with specialist marine areas of work such as marine collisions, oil spills and vessel arrestment
Requirements:
- Takes responsibility for their own caseload subject to supervision
- Works to understand the department's key clients, the industry they operate in and the challenges they face
- Qualified Solicitor or Chartered Legal Executive
- Experience within similar practice
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. Please see our website www.douglas-scott.co.uk for more legal positions.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.
- Website
- http://www.douglas-scott.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 0161 233 6360
- Location
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Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
No1 Spinningfields
1 Hardman Square, Spinningfields
Manchester
Greater Manchester
M3 3EB
GB
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