Paralegal - Casualty
- Recruiter
- DAC Beachcroft LLP
- Location
- Bristol (City Centre), City of Bristol
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 24 May 2015
- Closes
- 21 Jun 2015
- Ref
- 26032
- Job Title
- Paralegal
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Paralegal - Casualty
Bristol
£Competitive
Core responsibilities
• A paralegal or legal executive working within the Defendant injury claims team.
• Your case load will be primarily litigated disease claims with some employers liability and public liability cases. These will be on behalf of our insurer and commercial clients.
• Your case load will be primarily litigated Noise Induced Hearing Loss ("NIHL") claims, but there are some cases involving other claim types for example; Work Related Upper Limb ("WRULD"), Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome ("HAVS") and claims involving the Control of Hazardous Substance Regulations ("COSHH").
• You will work for a mixture of insurer clients and self-Insured companies which instruct us directly.
• Where necessary you may be asked to assist other colleagues on more complex and higher value cases.
• Your work will be supervised by more senior members of the team and you will receive the required level of technical, system and firm specific training to complete the role.
• You shall exercise full compliance with DAC Beachcroft protocols on billing and credit control and demonstrate a high level of financial management in respect of own files.
• Aim to achieve a minimum budgeted hours equivalent to an annual target of 1440 chargeable hours and also achieve a billing target commensurate with your role and client fee scale.
• As part of your role you may be asked to support marketing and business development activity within the team. This will include meeting clients, attending training sessions and marketing events.
• As part of your role you will be asked to build an awareness of DAC Beachcroft's other services and to maintain an awareness of the firm's strategies and plans.
• As part of your role you will be asked to maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications and where necessary exceeding Law Society CPD requirements.
• Handle confidential information in line with the firms data security protocols
Key skills
• A legal executive or paralegal with a keen interest in disease claims.
• The preferred candidates should have at least 2 years' experience in handling disease claims although 1 years' experience plus experience in handling Personal Injury claims would be considered.
• Applications from legal executives or paralegals with a Claimant background would be considered.
• Be able to build good relationships within the team and also with our commercial/insurer client.
• An awareness of management information, client driven KPI's and their importance to meeting client expectations would be preferable.
• Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues.
• Able to demonstrate a reasonable level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority.
• An ability to adopt a commercial (or pragmatic) perspective rather than an ‘academic’ approach to legal issues.
• Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives.
• Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team.
The team
The Claims Solutions team advises insurers and corporate clients in their defence of claims of all values, types and complexity. Our National team whose clients are a mix of leading names in the insurance industry as well as household name corporates, deal with all aspects of defendant litigation, to include catastrophic injury, motor, casualty, disease, product and health and safety. Increasingly, the team is getting involved in pre-emptive advice on these issues as well as dispute resolution.
About the firm
With over 2,300 people, DAC Beachcroft combines one of the most comprehensive UK legal networks with coverage across Europe, Latin America, North America and Asia-Pacific. We provide a full service claims, transactional, commercial, risk and advisory capability. We work with clients in a select range of industry sectors and are market leaders in health, insurance and real estate. We are agile, progressive and easy to engage with.
We are committed to supporting the communities where we operate through charitable giving, pro bono work and programmes such as those operated by Business in the Community and The Prince's Trust.
Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to the Legal Profession 2014, recognised more than half of our UK partners as leaders in their field and we hold 126 listings in total.
In The Legal 500 2014, the leading guide to law firms in the UK, the firm received a tier 1 ranking in 32 of its practice areas across the UK and 73 rankings in 40 separate practice areas. The firm is also recognised for its international capabilities in Chambers Asia Pacific, as well as Chambers and Legal 500 Europe and Latin America, with 51 additional international leading lawyers listed.
DAC Beachcroft holds certification under ISO9001, the quality assurance standard and ISO27001, the information security standard, and DAC Beachcroft LLP is the largest law firm in the country to hold a Gold Investors in People award.
Application Details
DAC Beachcroft is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from every sector of the community. We also welcome direct applications. If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV. Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.