Solicitor, Personal Injury, 1-3 years experience
- Recruiter
- Kennedys
- Location
- England, Essex, Chelmsford
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 22 Mar 2017
- Closes
- 19 Apr 2017
- Ref
- 33582
- Job Title
- Solicitor
- Practice Area
- Litigation, Personal Injury, Public Sector / Local Authority
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Kennedys' Firm information:
Kennedys is an international law firm with specialist expertise in litigation/dispute resolution and advisory services. Our growing network of offices delivers straightforward legal solutions to the insurance, corporate and public sectors.
Brief Description of Role:
This is a great opportunity to work on a high quality caseload for a variety of clients on Fast & Multi-track claims, including EL/PL cases. The work will mainly be personal injury related, but may also involve property damage recoveries.
Team Information:
The division is recognised for their specialist expertise in defending insurance liability claims including personal injury matters, from small through to large loss employers' and public liability, and motor claims.
The division also handles catastrophic injury and occupational disease related matters as well as medical negligence and fraud related issues.
Types of Clients:
- EL/PL and Motor Insurers
- Local Authorities
- TPA/Claims Handlers
- Self-insured Corporates
Types of Cases:
- Employer's, Public and Motor Liability
- General Liability
- Catastrophic, brain and psychiatric injury
- Occupational Disease
- Property recovery
Requirements:
Qualifications:
Essential:
- UK Qualified Solicitor, Foreign Qualified or CILEX qualified with the relevant experience.
- Strong Academics (2.1 or higher degree) or equivalent.
Desirable:
- Would consider a strong Foreign Qualified Solicitor with the relevant experience.
Experience:
Essential:
- 1-3 years'* defendant personal injury experience.
- A newly qualified solicitor with personal injury experience gained during training contract would be considered.*
- Experience of fast track and/or multi-track claims experience.
- Able to run own caseload with some supervision.
- Experience of EL/PL work.
- To have had previous client contact and attendance at business development events.
Kennedys' Firm information:
Kennedys is an international law firm with expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, particularly in the insurance/reinsurance and liability industries. With over 1,500 people worldwide across 26 offices in the UK and Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and Latin America, we have some of the most respected legal minds in their fields.
We act for insurers, reinsurers, Lloyd's Syndicates, public bodies and corporates. Our deep sector knowledge means that we understand the impact of proposed regulations and advise our clients on the implications this will have on their business. Every day we make a difference for our clients.
We provide answers, recommendations, strategy and tactics. We deliver these in plain English and it's what we call Legal advice in black and white.
What do we have to offer?
At Kennedys we offer a vibrant and supportive working environment built upon our core values; we are approachable, and responsive, we show respect for people, we are trustworthy and straightforward and we ensure that we deliver economic solutions for our clients.
Career Development:
We actively encourage all staff to develop in their chosen career by providing early responsibility, supervision and training.
Please see attached job specification for further information.
*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.