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Dispute Resolution Associate

Employer
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
Location
Guildford
Salary
Competitive Salary
Closing date
8 Jun 2021
Reference
J62700

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

Job Details

Dispute Resolution Associate (2+PQE)

Guildford

A legal 500 firm requires an Associate to join their Dispute Resolution Team based in Guildford on a permanent basis to handle all forms of commercial dispute resolution for commercial and private clients.

The role will be to work in conjunction with more senior fee earners on relevant cases, but also to build and develop your own case load as well as participate in the marketing of the Department by active participation in networking, seminar provision.

Main Duties include:

- To assist the department as a whole in meeting its fee earning targets by providing help, advice and assistance to clients of the Department, senior fee earners within the team and other Departments of the Firm.
- To deal with commercial litigation matters in all their forms, including court proceedings
- Management of support services, including supervision of own secretary if appropriate
- Participation in marketing activities whether on a firm-wide, departmental or office basis
- To utilise skills of any Department Trainee and to assist with the Trainee's training
- Financial control with particular regard to cash-flow control through collection of monies on account and billing procedures.

Experience Required:

- Previous experience in Commercial Dispute Resolution
- God working knowledge of the CPR
- Achieves targets set for Solicitors in respect of chargeable hours, fees, recovery rate, lock-up and non-chargeable time and is looking to progress
- Ideally (2-5PQE)

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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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