Credit Hire Litigation Executive

Credit hire paralegal - Litigated - small claims and fast track - £23,000 - £30,000

Credit Paralegal / Litigation Executive / Fee Earner - Bolton

Credit Hire Fee Earner - The work is a real mix of credit hire cases, suspected credit hire fraud, liability investigations and bodily injury cases. You will also assist experienced lawyers in the formulation of new technical case strategies and tactics to further improve results and case outcomes. You will handle your own caseload of litigated, delegated authority cases for a wide range of clients including the UK's top insurance companies and brokers.

Summary

• Job title: Paralegal / Fee Earner / Litigation Executive
• Location: Bolton
• Salary: £23,000 - £30,000
• Reports to: Team Leader
• Previous Experience: Ideally candidates should demonstrate small claims and / or fast track litigation experience. There is also potential to train someone with pre-litigation experience depending on the candidate's level of competency as well as other areas such as PPI.

Who they are looking for

The hiring managers are ideally looking for candidates with experience of small claims and fast track matters as well as experience of handling your own caseload. That said, they have always looked more broadly at the candidate as a whole so even if you do not quite have the level of experience sought, we would be interested in hearing from you.

Role and responsibilities

This is technical, litigated work and the hiring managers are looking for bright applicants with inquisitive minds. You will gain excellent exposure to a fantastic mix of work. In particular, you will be expected to:

• Analyse the information available and create case strategies on credit hire cases keeping in mind any client guidelines
• Liaise and negotiate with insureds, insurers, as well as third part solicitors with the aime of pursuing rapid and expedient settlement of cases
• Conduct court telephone hearings
• Conduct periodic file reviews
• Provide updates to clients on the progress of cases and case activity

Fantastic career progression

As well as offering an exciting role within a thriving team, the credit hire team is always a perfect platform to develop into other practice areas and disciplines. Past members of the team have since qualified into other departments such as commercial litigation and large loss as well as advocacy.

The role not only offers fantastic work, but fantastic opportunities moving forward. If you would like to find out more, please don't hesitate to apply.