Paralegal / Litigation Assistant, Personal Injury

Kennedys are on an upwards trajectory and are seeking to recruit Paralegal/Litigation Assistants for their Chelmsford office.

This is a great opportunity to work on a high quality caseload for a variety of clients on Small-track and Fast-track claims, with a focus on motor work.

Team Information: This team is headed up by partner Richard West who is based in our Chelmsford office and is known in particular for dealing with employers’, motor and public liability claims. He has also developed expertise including catastrophic, brain and psychiatric injury on behalf of insurers, self-insured and policyholders.

Type of Clients:

• Employers’ Liability/Public Liability Insurers
• Motor insurers Local authorities and London Boroughs
• Claims handlers

Type of Cases:

• Employers’, motor and public liability
• General liability

Requirements

Qualifications Essential:

• Good Academics.
• Desirable: LPC graduate, FILEX qualified or studying towards ILEX qualification.

Experience

Essential: (Type, length, quality, background)

• A minimum of 1-2 years* defendant litigation experience preferably within personal injury (claimant experience will be considered).
• Able to run own caseload with some supervision.
• Small-track and fast-track claims experience.
• Experience of arbitration and negotiation.
• To have had previous client contact and attendance at business development events.

*Where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.