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Personal Injury Assistant Solicitor

Employer
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Location
Chichester
Salary
Competitve
Closing date
5 Feb 2021
Reference
J60670

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Practice area
Personal injury
Contract type
Permanent
Hours
Full time
PQE
2 years, 3 years, 4 years, 5 years, 6 years
Position
Solicitor
Sector
Private practice

Job Details

Personal Injury Assistant Solicitor (Fixed Term Contract - 12 months)

Chichester

Maternity Cover

An excellent and exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Assistant Solicitor in Personal Injury to join a well established firm for 12 months maternity cover based in Chichester.

This is a senior appointment incorporating high value and complex personal injury cases.

Main Duties:

Assist the team in an assortment of personal injury claims.
Demonstrate appropriate competency to deal with all aspects of your work.
To have good written and verbal skills and a need to demonstrate drive, initiative and enthusiasm as well as an ability to work as part of a team within the firm's Personal Injury Department;
Liaise with Partners and the Department Head as necessary and to attend departmental meetings as requested by the Department Head;
use of accounting and time recording software
to ensure the confidentiality and security of all documentation to comply with the new GDPR regulations
you will be expected to use a high degree of self-management and initiative, complying with all relevant professional and regulatory obligations
-managing documentary disclosure
- taking witness statements
- producing Schedules of Loss and interim payment budgets
- Instructing counsel and experts
- Producing indexed e- bundles for Court, dealing with e-filing/ proceedings/ applications etc

Experience Required:

- A suitable professional qualification or equivalent experience
- Significant experience of working in a personal injury department in a client facing role
- IT literate, with experience of using case management (ideally Proclaim)
- You will have a good academic record.

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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