Personal Injury Solicitor Casualty EL/PL

Casualty EL/PL Solicitor or Legal Executive - Manchester - 2-5 PQE (PQE given as guide) - strong academics - £44,000 - £50,000

Personal Injury Casualty EL/PL Solicitor / Legal Executive - Manchester

Personal Injury Solicitor - EL/PL - Manchester - The niche specialist team of this 'top tier' defendant insurance firm is looking for a talented solicitor with proven EL/PL experience. The successful candidate will join a small team acting for a few key clients. What makes this role stand out is that it will keep you constantly challenged with the type of specialist injury work which is difficult to find elsewhere.

Summary

• Job Title: Associate
• Location: Manchester
• Salary: to £44,000 - £50,000
• Work pattern - hybrid: 3 days working from home
• Reports to: Partner
• Expertise: Strong academic background and ideally proven EL/PL experience from a defendant perspective. Claimant EL/PL experience will be considered, but defendant experience is certainly preferred.

Fantastic variety of technical and complex work

The team is instructed on a broad range of technical matters which include everything from lower value, but technical fast track matters as well as matters involving head and spinal and head injuries. The team also receive more specialist work such as cases arising from severe burns as well as abuse work. The role offers the opportunity to develop your own caseload whilst assisting an experienced Senior Associate and Legal Director on more complex, high-value work.

Responsibilities will include:

• Handling a caseload of technical multi-track matters including setting case strategy;
• Assisting on complex injury matters;
• Drafting pleadings;
• reporting to clients;
• preparing instructions to counsel and experts
• attending conference.
• Conducting research and keeping up to date with legal and industry practices.

Equally impressive range of candidates

This is classic technical EL/PL defence work for a small number of key clients of the firm who require advice on highly technical often esoteric cases. Clients include 'tier 1' insurers and corporates particularly in manufacturing and logistics which often have cases involving serious injury of a specific nature. The successful candidate will handle matters anywhere from £50,000 to approximately £250,000, whilst assisting on the higher-value matters, many of which go to trial.

Team overview

This is a niche team which sits within the broader Large Loss practice group. The team consists of two Partners, 2 Legal Directors, 3 Senior Associates and an NQ and Paralegal. The team is looking to recruit a Solicitor from 2 to 5 PQE.

The successful candidate will handle their own caseload of technical multi-track EL/PL matters whilst assisting a Senior Associate and Legal Director on complex injury / catastrophic work of up to and beyond £1m. All the work is hourly rate and the team is also heavily involved in trial work.

This is the 'go-to' team within the wider Large Loss practice group for complex technical EL/PL work which requires a real technical and robust approach. The clients serviced by this team look to its lawyers regarding cases which are particularly challenging. The role offers the successful candidate a chance to join a supportive team doing the best high-quality impactful work with fantastic opportunities for progression.

Please do not hesitate to apply for more information.