Trainee Personal Injury Lawyer

TRAINEE PERSONAL INJURY LAWYER - REMOTE WORKING
£22,000 - £30,000
Due to continued success and demand, my client have an exciting and rare opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to pursue a career within Personal Injury Law. The successful candidate will be provided with full training on a remote working basis and will be fully equipped to develop them into Personal Injury Fee Earners. Following a period of training, you will be responsible for managing your own caseload of Personal Injury claims.

The Opportunity
As a Trainee Lawyer you will join the firms Sub £10k team which will involve a full range of training to get you up to speed and progressing through the 4 trainee stages as quickly as you can develop. 

• Level 1 - Running cases up to settlement or issue (Salary - £22,000)
• Level 2 - Running cases up to settlement or defence (so would issue proceedings) (Salary - £24,000-£25,000)
• Level 3 - Running cases up to settlement or trial - running a number of cases through full litigation process (Salary - £26,000-£28,000)
• Level 4 - Running a predominately litigated caseload (Salary - £29,000-£30,000)
   

Job Description

• Managing own caseload of primarily fast track cases
• Pursuing claims through MOJ portal and personal injury protocol to settlement or issue of proceedings, making full use of our case management system
• Potential for pursuing claims in litigation to Trial, dependent on experience
• To comply with the Directors expectations of time recording and financial targets
• To work within a team environment
• Communicating with clients, insurers, expert witnesses and solicitors
• Reporting to team supervisor
   

The Candidate

• This opportunity is open to candidates from as little as 6 months experience in personal injury claims, to those with more experience doing either some litigation or wanting to move into litigation
• Ideally you will have previous claimant personal injury case handling experience (EL/PL)
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team
• Highly efficient and organised
• Excellent negotiation skills
• A Level or degree in Law and/or pursuing CILEx qualification
• Good tactical understanding of working in fixed fee environment

Job Benefits

• The firm offer above market salaries and fully remote home working.
• They offer a fully supportive working environment where they hope their team will forge long term careers with the firm.
• The firm promote individuals looking to qualify through CILEx and help fund the qualification.