Solicitor/FILEX, Abuse, 3-6 Years Experience

This is a great opportunity to work on a high quality caseload for a variety of clients on multi track child sexual abuse claims.  The work will include dealing with claims relating to child sexual exploitation as well as historical and non-historical physical and sexual abuse claims. 

Type of Clients:

Local Authorities

Private Clients

Charities

Type of Cases:

Multi-Track claims valued up to £500,000 both pre-litigation and litigated, covering a range of issues to include consideration and assessment of liability (to include vicarious liability, negligence and non-delegable duty of care), issues of limitation, quantum valuations (to include consideration of psychiatric evidence) and assessing causation. 

Experience

Essential:

Ideally 2-6 years personal injury experience.

Experience of multi-track claims, catastrophic claims or working within a niche legal area

Able to run own caseload with some supervision.

Experience of EL/PL work.

Ability to apply a forensic approach but also deliver economic solutions.

To be proactive and take initiative as well as to take instructions.

Excellent organisations skills are essential.

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 1,700 people worldwide across 36 offices in the UK and Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and 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.