- Location
- Liverpool
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Legal
- Source
- Pinpoint
Description
Assistant Lawyer
Department: Legal
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Liverpool
Description
To support a Complex Disease Lawyer to manage and progress claims in accordance with appropriate strategies to secure desired outcomes for clients at appropriate levels of profitability. The Assistant will be supporting a Complex Disease Lawyer on a variety of complex disease cases.
Key Responsibilities
- Reviewing documents and preparing reports
- Dealing with disclosure
- Reviewing evidence (including medical /personnel records
- Conducting investigations with Insured /obtaining witness statements
- Instructing Counsel / Experts
- Research
- Drafting generally
- Attending conferences and Trials with Counsel
- Dealing with routine correspondence
- Court appointments.
- Liaising with and taking instructions from Insurers and Insureds
- Ensure adherence to Court timetables
- To ensure compliance with the SRA Code of Conduct 2011
- Adhere to the Keoghs Values
35 hours per week
Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm with 1 unpaid hour for lunch
Primary location for this role is: Liverpool
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Technically proficient in dealing with a range of mixed disease cases
- Effective negotiator
- Ability to use own initiative
- Flexibility in relation to tasks undertaken
- Good listening and verbal communication skills
- Ability to maintain concentration and pay attention to detail
- Ability to self-organise and self-prioritise
- Ability to work under pressure and to target
- An enthusiastic and hardworking individual
- Good level of IT skills
Job Benefits
- 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
- Simply Health Care Cash Plan
- WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing covering a whole host of topics to do with health, mental health, wellbeing & healthy living and financial & legal wellbeing
- Death In Service – after 1 years’ service
- Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
- Cycle to Work Scheme*
- Tech Scheme*
- Season Ticket Loan*
- Gym Flex*
- Access to Online Discount Sites
- Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
- Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
- Discounts at local retail outlet
*after successfully completing probation
Skills
Compliance