Solicitor, Catastrophic injury, 5-8 years experience

Brief Description of Role:
We are looking to recruit a solicitor for our London catastrophic injury team. The successful candidate will run a mixed caseload of high-value catastrophic injury cases, including brain injury and maximum severity, for a range of clients.

Team Information:
Our national team services personal injury claims from seven office locations across the UK. The London team is a major force in the local market and is ranked in the top tier for defendant personal injury by the legal directories. We act for well-known clients and on some very high profile cases, led by experienced Partners recognized as market leaders in this sector.
We avoid unnecessary lawyering and are focused on working in partnership with our clients to achieve practical and commercial solutions at a realistic cost.
We advise on defendant personal injury claims covering the entire range from 'slip and trip' to catastrophic personal injury, including spinal, brain and multiple injuries, psychiatric injury, amputations, fatal accidents and multiple orthopedic traumas.

Type of Clients:

• Large composite Insurers
• London Market Insurers
• EL/PL and motor insurers
• Corporates

Type of Cases:

All aspects of motor and EL/PL claims up to and assisting on complex and high value personal injury.
Both pre-litigation and litigated files. Promoting early resolution of claims without recourse to litigation.

Experience

Qualifications:

Essential:

Strong Academics (2.1 or higher degree) or equivalent.

Desirable:
UK Qualified Solicitor, Foreign Qualified or CILEX qualified with the relevant experience.

Experience:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in a defendant personal injury law firm.*
• Experience of catastrophic injury
• Experience of progressing case plans.
• Meeting targets.
• Ogden 7 calculations.
• Instructing counsel and experts.
• SLA compliance and MI capture.
• Lloyds market experience (Desirable)

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.