Trainee Personal Injury Lawyer
- Recruiter
- CapeClarke Limited
- Location
- Remote work
- Salary
- £22000 - £30000 per annum, Benefits: Remote Working
- Posted
- 13 Sep 2022
- Closes
- 11 Oct 2022
- Ref
- SH-126
- Contact
- Stephen Hunt
- Job Title
- Paralegal
- Practice Area
- Personal Injury
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
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 indivdual to pursue a career within Personal Injury Law. The successfull candidate will be provided with full training on a remote working basis and will be fully equiped 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 upto 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 perosnal 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.