NQ Solicitor / Legal Executive - Uninsured Loss Recovery

Ampa Holdings LLP; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading legal firm in Birmingham seeks a newly qualified or experienced litigator as an NQ Solicitor / Legal Exec. The role entails managing your own caseload of contentious claims, negotiating with insurers, and ensuring compliance with civil procedure rules. Candidates should have experience in litigation across various tracks and be confident with IT systems. The firm offers agile working options to suit diverse needs and a supportive work culture valuing individual contributions.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Supportive work culture

Qualifications

• Newly qualified or experienced litigator with a strong understanding of civil procedure rules.
• Ability to maintain client relationships and provide updates on claims.
• Excellent negotiation skills and strong communication.

Responsibilities

• Manage own caseload of contentious claims with diary management.
• Evaluate claims and obtain necessary documentation.
• Investigate liability and evidence claims.

Skills

NQ or experience in litigation across Fast/Intermediate/Multi Tracks

Experience in managing your own caseload

Previous experience in using a case management system

Confidence with IT systems including Microsoft Word and Excel

Job description

Overview

Department: Corclaim - ULR - ULR - ULR - 3302

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Birmingham

Reporting To: Ian Evans

Description

NQ Solicitor / Legal Exec - Uninsured Loss Recovery

Are you a newly qualified or experienced litigator looking to take charge of your own caseload and make a real impact in a specialist, high-performing team? Join our dynamic Uninsured Loss Recovery team and help businesses recover what they’re owed. The role will offer exposure to a variety of contentious highways damage work across Fast, Intermediate and Multi Tracks. You’ll be trained up to manage your own caseload and conducting litigation, on behalf of businesses in the recovery of their uninsured losses.

Meet Ian who heads up the team - he is looking forward to hearing from you!

Responsibilities

• Managing your own caseload of contentious claims and being responsible for diary management
• Evaluating each claim and pro-actively obtaining quantum documentation
• Investigating liability by gathering/assessing evidence and establishing negligence
• Negotiating liability or quantum with defendant solicitors or insurers
• Instructing and liaising with experts to evidence claims
• Drafting own legal proceedings and dealing with all aspects of litigation / compliance within the civil procedure rules
• Instructing and liaising with counsel and experts
• To attend hearings where necessary
• Drafting your own correspondence and witness statements etc
• Maintaining client relationships e.g. informing them on the progress of a claim, providing advice and participation in claims
• Review meeting where appropriate
• Carrying out general administration to include archiving, billing, case management

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• NQ or experience in litigation across Fast/Intermediate/Multi Tracks
• Experience in managing your own caseload
• Previous experience in using a case management system
• Confidence with IT systems to include Microsoft Word and Excel

Key competencies you will need

• The ability to prioritise well and produce a high standard of work, sometimes under tight time constraints, whilst maintaining accuracy and good attention to detail
• Strong organisational skills whilst maintaining team processes and procedures
• A pro-active approach in documenting and handling tasks / cases
• The ability to cope and respond to sudden client demands
• Good communication skills, a good telephone manner and the ability to discuss and
• Negotiate matters on the telephone
• An analytical, problem solving approach

Benefits, Agile Working and Additional information

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

We have hubs in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, London, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Southampton, Stratford-upon-Avon, Sheffield & Tunbridge Wells.

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Additional information: Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Equal opportunities Corclaim, as part of the Ampa Group is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.