Solicitor/ Chartered Legal Executive - Casualty Injury

Solicitor/ Chartered Legal Executive Job - Casualty Injury - Bristol

Your new company
Our client is looking to appoint a Solicitor / Chartered Legal Executive to join their Claims Solutions Injury Team in Bristol. The team advises insurers and corporate clients in their defence of claims of all values, types and complexity. The National team, whose clients are a mix of leading names in the insurance industry as well as household name corporates, deal with all aspects of defendant litigation, to include catastrophic injury, motor, casualty, disease, product and health and safety. Increasingly, the team is getting involved in pre-emptive advice on these issues as well as dispute resolution.

Your new role

• A litigation executive or solicitor working within the Employers Liability/Public Liability injury Casualty team.
• Your case load will be primarily litigated Employer Liability and Public Liability cases on behalf of key insurer clients.
• Where necessary you will be asked to assist other colleagues on more complex and higher value cases.
• You will be working in a team of 20+ fee earners with plans for further growth.
• You must be able to handle a varied workload in accordance with client protocols and with an appropriate level of supervision. Act as a point of contact for clients, demonstrating a level of knowledge and skill commensurate with experience.

What you'll need to succeed

• A demonstrable interest and previous experience in casualty injury work. Experience of public sector work is desirable but not essential
• A proven awareness of management information, client driven KPI's and their importance to meeting client expectations
• Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues. Able to demonstrate a reasonable level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority
• An ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an 'academic' approach to legal issues
• Change oriented with a positive, flexible approach towards the implementation of new initiatives
• Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to share knowledge with and support other members of the team

What you'll get in return
This is a great opportunity to join a progressive and forward thinking national firm where they are renowned for the quality of their people and the depth of experience across the whole team. For further information on this role, please contact Harriet Chapman at Hays Legal.

What you need to do now
If you are interested in applying for this position click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new role, please contact Harriet Chapman in complete confidence at Hays. We would expect a lawyer with the given PQE to have gained the level of experience required, but this does not preclude applications from those with more or less PQE. INDHLEG

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