Personal Injury Fee Earners
- Recruiter
- Kingsley
- Location
- South Shields, Tyne and Wear
- Salary
- Salary dependent on experience
- Posted
- 30 Nov 2016
- Closes
- 19 Dec 2016
- Ref
- DOI12309
- Job Title
- Paralegal
- Practice Area
- Personal Injury
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
We currently have a fab opportunity for an experienced fee earner with personal injury (PI) experience to join a law firm in South Shields. This is a top chance to become part of a skilled team that focusses on RTA claims.
Along with opportunities for progression and great benefits, the successful candidate will be joining an award-winning firm that values its employees. So, if you want to become a personal injury fee earner in South Shields, don’t miss this unique opportunity.
What we are looking for:
- Preferably solicitors or RTA case handlers with two years’ PQE
- Experience commensurate with position
- Able to handle large volume caseloads and deadlines
Main responsibilities:
- Provide legal support and advice to directors
- Effectively and efficiently deal with individual caseloads
- Ensure that an effective, prompt, and accurate service is provided to all clients
- Maintain an awareness of changes in best practice, procedures, and legislation, and disseminate changes to all appropriate colleagues
- Deal with all correspondence appropriately, and within a reasonable timescale
- Plan your workload to best anticipate and balance priorities
- Liaise with the accounts department regarding the payment of outstanding accounts, disbursements, bad debts, etc.
- Undertake appropriate training and meet target CPD hours
- Ensure any goals set by the directors are met
- Provide legal support and advice to clients and other members of staff
- Attend and participate realistically in all management team meetings where your presence is required
- Provide written reports, when needed
- Undertake non-chargeable work, including practice development for the benefit of the firm, which may be outside office hours
If you would like to take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to join a leading law firm in the North East, call or email me right away. I can also discuss the role in further detail or help with your wider job search. For more personal injury fee earner jobs in South S