Basis
Full time
Job category/type
Solicitor
Date posted
31/10/2024
Job reference
HJ0322
Background
The Specialist Claims Group represents clients who have suffered serious injury either as a result of a harmful product, foreign accident or abuse.
The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the harmful product team of the group for a newly qualified solicitor, chartered legal executive or an individual with equivalent experience.
The role will primarily involve assisting senior lawyers within the group in running a group action seeking to secure compensation for clients affected by the disruption in their supply of life sustaining parenteral nutrition manufactured by Calea. There is also scope to work on other product liability cases and develop your own caseload.
The successful candidate will be working within a busy claimant litigation team with duties to include:
* Direct client contact, including attending clients’ homes, dealing with telephone enquiries and updating clients as to the progress of their claims;
* Taking clients’ instructions and drafting witness statements and schedules of loss;
* Instructing medical experts to prepare Part 35 compliant reports;
* Obtaining and reviewing medical records and preparing evidence bundles;
* Providing clients with explanations of funding arrangements for their claim including CFAs and ATE insurance;
* Instructing counsel and attending in conferences;
* Drafting court orders and documents; and
* Responsibility for maintaining an up-to-date core bundle of documents relating to the generic aspects of the group action.
The ideal candidate will have experience in personal injury litigation and a working knowledge of CPR with excellent organisational and communication skills. An excellent level of attention to detail is critical. There is opportunity for personal development within the team with suitable career progression.
We are looking for a highly ambitious and self-motivated individual who is comfortable working within a team and on their own.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive, ambitious and established team.
Life at Hugh James
We never shy away from a challenge
We are a leading, full-service UK law firm. Since our beginning, we have been led by the things that matter. We care about fighting for the right outcomes. Solving the seemingly unsolvable. Protecting businesses, individuals and livelihoods. Supporting our people, our communities. Safeguarding our planet. Looking for a way forward? At Hugh James, challenges – of all sizes – are readily accepted.
The Hugh James difference
Our law firm has always been guided by the idea that self-belief is just as important as skillset. Our pursuit of righting wrongs and protecting what’s important keeps us driving forwards. It’s in our roots! We won’t stop until we find the answers; the outcomes that are needed.
We are focused on the work we do, the business we run, and our culture. Our entrepreneurial spirit has taken us from humble beginnings to a strong presence across the UK with offices in Cardiff, London, Manchester, Southampton and Plymouth – servicing clients from businesses, individuals and banks to public sector organisations, property companies, education establishments and utilities providers. Our collegiate culture, our forward-looking ethos, our values serve to make us bigger, better, bolder than ever before.
A positive force in the community
Our work with charities on a local and national level plays a huge part in our day-to-day lives. We work with a large range of charities, some of which we support through fundraising, donations, volunteering and others we partner with where our areas of work cross paths. Staff, clients everyone comes together through a shared passion to do good in the community and support those in need.
Some of our benefits on offer include:
Minimum of 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Two Corporate Social Responsibility days
Birthday day off
Death in service equivalent to twice annual salary
Auto enrolment pension scheme
Hybrid working
Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts for local businesses
Professional fees paid (subject to requirement for your role)
Employee recruitment incentive scheme
Hugh James is an equal opportunities and disability confident committed employer.
Thank you for taking the time to consider this opportunity. If you have questions, please contact Phoebe Orbell.
We reserve the right to close our vacancies earlier than the given deadline if we receive sufficient applications for the role.
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