Clinical Negligence Lawyer

Are you an experienced Clinical Negligence Lawyer looking for a new opportunity? Thompsons Solicitors are currently looking for an experienced Lawyer to add to our team based in Nottingham. With a passion for putting the client first and demonstrating excellent client care, you will be a qualified used to running a varied clinical negligence caseload. *Salary advertised will be dependent on level of experience.
  

Key Responsibilities

The Clinical negligence Lawyers manage and run a variety of clinical negligence cases pre and post issue. As well as dealing with a full clinical negligence caseload from initial interview to settlement, they work as part of the wider clinical negligence team, providing assistance to others in the team as necessary to aide development, enhance the client experience and cost recovery. The clinical negligence lawyers provide advice and support to Trade Unions, their members and private clients. Together with progressing cases to Trial, ADR and making interlocutory applications, they are in involved in forecasting and billing, including a strong track record of including a strong track record of meeting KPIs on time recording and billing.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

We are keen to hear from qualified solicitors with up to date knowledge of the law relating to clinical negligence and the civil litigation process. As well as excellent communication and client care skills, demonstrating an ability to empathise with vulnerable clients is essential. The ability to construct clear and effective arguments, yielding the best result for our clients is also key. We are looking for team players who enjoy engaging in marketing and business development opportunities, together with proven competency and expertise in the field of clinical negligence.

Benefits

• Contributory pension scheme
• £4,000 Car allowance 
• Permanent health insurance
• Healthcare Cash Plan (Medicash)
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 5 days additional leave over Christmas 
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Subsidised sports and social club
• Annual travel and parking loans
• Financial assistance for professional development

About Thompsons Solicitors

For 100 years, leading social justice law firm, Thompsons Solicitors, has been fighting for the rights of the injured and mistreated and changing lives for the better. Since 1921, we have stood shoulder-to-shoulder with trade unions to implement key legal reforms and give a voice to those who might otherwise have been disadvantaged and marginalised.

Thompsons ran:
• the case that established the right for injured workers to be compensated in 1937
• the first asbestos case that was successful in the House of Lords in 1972
• the first equal pay for equal value claim in the UK (1988) and later in Europe (1993)
• the case against UK construction companies for blacklisting union members in 2016
• hundreds of cases on behalf of women who received negligent treatment at the hands of disgraced breast surgeon, Ian Paterson (2017) and behalf of those injured by mesh (2019).

Today, Thompsons employs 800 staff who work at 18 offices right across the UK. Key areas of legal specialism include: personal injury, serious injury, asbestos diseases, medical negligence, road traffic accidents, accidents at work, industrial diseases and trade union law. As a point of principle, the firm has never worked for employers or insurers.

Over the last 100 years, we have consistently won the cases that have advanced the law for working people, but, as long as there are employers who put profit before the safety and rights of their workforce, there is always more to do. We continue to expose injustice, holding those responsible to account and campaigning for positive change. 

We want to hear from anyone who is keen to progress a legal career with a firm that won’t let up in its quest for fairness.