- Senior
- Optionales Büro in Birmingham
The Complex Disease Lawyer will handle own caseload of mixed diseases & complex cases within our Legacy department to manage and progress claims in accordance with appropriate strategies to secure desired outcomes at appropriate levels of profitability.
Key Responsibilities
- Overall conduct of allocated matters fixing strategy and liaising directly with clients
- Responsibility for Assistants & their development
- Ensure adherence with court timetables by taking relevant actions/delegation of tasks as appropriate
- Ensuring experts are instructed in sufficient time by taking relevant actions/delegation of tasks as appropriate
- Attending conferences with Counsel and clients
- Dealing with routine correspondence
- Compliance with MI
- To ensure compliance with the SRA Standards & Regulations
- Adhere to the Keoghs Values
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Technically proficient in dealing with a mixed disease caseload including long tail disease and short tail disease.
- Experience of dealing with the Claims Portal as well as Fast, Intermediate and Multi Track litigation including cases in the High Court
- Effective negotiator
- Ability to use own initiative
- Good listening and verbal communication skills
- Ability to organise, delegate & prioritise
- Good level of IT skills
Benefits
- Davies Incentive Plan
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
- Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa) - will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
- Death in Service
- Critical Illness Cover
- PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Employee Resource Groups
- Employee Volunteering Programme
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Tech Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loan*
- Gym Flex*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlets
* after successfully completing probation
