Associate
- Recruiter
- Kennedys
- Location
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Salary
- Competitive + benefits
- Posted
- 08 Jan 2021
- Closes
- 05 Feb 2021
- Job Title
- Associate
- Practice Area
- Litigation, Occupational / Industrial Disease, Personal Injury
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Kennedys is looking for an experience Associate to assist the hiring partner with defendant disease claims in our Sheffield office.
This is a great opportunity to work on a high quality caseload for a variety of clients on defendant personal injury work.
Team
Kennedys’ Sheffield Liability Team work with insurers, self-insured corporates and local authorities. They handle simple to complex injury, property damage and all types of quantum loss claims. They also advise on motor liability matters involving road traffic incidents, disease matters, contract/indemnity, and product liability across all sectors.
Clients
- Insurers
- Corporates
- TPA’s
- Brokers
Cases
- Asbestos
- NIHL
- HAVS
- Some EL/PL
Required experience
- 3-5+ years’ experience of defendant personal injury claims gained within a law firm.*
- Track record of capably handling a caseload of multi-track and high value claims
- Experience of client contact
- Experience of supervision of junior lawyers
- Experience of providing client training/writing articles and bulletins
- Defendant disease litigation work.
Benefits
- Matching pension scheme
- Fitness and wellness benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Corporate GP
- Life insurance and Income protection
- 35 hour working week
- Excellent resources via our online Learning Management System
About Kennedys
As soon as you join Kennedys you’ll be given opportunity to build your own personal client relationships, and we encourage you to do so. We value the relationships we build with our clients and we know that they appreciate our warm, friendly, human approach. We place emphasis on offering a transparent career path. Our partner and senior associate promotion process and criteria are clearly communicated throughout the firm. We are proud that many of our partners, including our Senior Partner, began their life in law as trainees with us.