Assistant Lawyer

Department: Legal

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Bolton

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

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

Our culture is focussed on making Davies sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our five values are at the heart of everything we do;

Values:
We are connected
We are Dynamic
We are Innovative
We succeed together

Job Benefits

• 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
• Family Cover Private Medical Insurance (Bupa)- will automatically be at single cover level but can opt into family option within first month of joining.
• 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
• Critical Illness Cover
• PHI/Income Protection (Private health insurance)
• Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
• Employee Resource Groups
• Employee Volunteering Programme
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Tech Scheme*
• Season Ticket Loan*
• Gym Flex*
• Access to Online Discount Sites