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Catastrophic Injury Solicitor
Douglas Scott Legal Recruitment
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Greater Manchester, North West, UK Get directions
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000
Solicitor Personal Injury & Clinical Negligence Full time
Catastrophic Injury Solicitor

A Serious/Catastrophic Injury Solicitor or Legal Executive is wanted for an excellent opportunity with a Top 100, Defendant law firm based in Manchester. Salary is negotiable depending on experience.

My client is a Chambers rated, national law firm with an enviable reputation in the market. Working for this forward thinking firm there is a pleasant working environment, excellent benefits along with opportunities for progression and development.

Due to continued growth and expansion they are looking to recruit a Solicitor or Legal Executive to manage a caseload of Defendant Serious/Catastrophic Injury RTA and EL/PL files. You may also assist the Partners on high value Catastrophic Injury cases. You will work on a varied caseload of files including brain injury, spinal injury, amputation and fatal cases.

Applications are invited from both Defendant and Claimant Solicitors/Legal Executives and you will ideally have experience working on Serious Injury/Catastrophic cases.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a Top Tier UK law firm with a market leading salary and benefits package on offer.

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Frequently asked questions

You must have completed the academic stage of study to become a Legal Executive. You are also required to have worked in a qualifying position for at least three years. Furthermore, you need to fulfil the work-based learning objectives.

After earning a fellowship with the institute, Chartered Legal Executive attorneys have the option to become solicitors in one or two years. They usually are excused from the training contract that graduates must complete to qualify as solicitors. To find out more about the legal executive vacancies, visit Simply Law Jobs.

A fellow of CILEx (The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) is required to work as a legal executive. You are required to pass the CILEx professional qualification in law and complete a minimum of three years of supervised legal practice.

In most cases, it takes two years to finish. To become a chartered legal executive, you must work for three years in a qualifying position. The training requirements can vary for each educational institution and it’s solely based on their distinctive qualifications

Because of the way you build up a breadth of knowledge in your particular area of law, becoming a legal executive is a highly gratifying profession. The occupation is building a solid career path, and training will most certainly be extended in the future to reflect this.

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Legal Executive Job Description

An authorised lawyer is a chartered legal executive. Chartered Legal Executives specialise in a particular field of law and work with Solicitors or CILEx Practitioners on restricted legal work. The legal work comprises transportation (where legal work is needed to buy or sell property). You also work on the criminal code (where you defend or take a court case against a person accused of a crime). You also cover the area of business and company law (laws relating to businesses, such as tax or employment) and courtroom battles (going to court to sort out disputes). In addition, according to the legal executive job description, injuries to individuals (such as accident claims) and the family's law (divorce and sorting issues about money, property and children) are also areas of your work.

Legal Executive Job Responsibilities

The Legal Executives provide legal advice to clients and clarify complex legal issues. They connect with the clients successfully, make agreements, act as a go-between for the clients, and negotiate and correspond on their behalf. These executives interview and advise witnesses and clients. Furthermore, the study, analyse, and summarise legal knowledge and information to compile legal papers (research). They also collaborate with colleagues from courts, law firms, banks, and accounting firms. These personnel contact experts such as mortgage lenders, planning officers, or other lawyers and represent clients in county and magistrates' courts on behalf of the clients. It is their job to serve as oath commissioners for the swearing-in of legal documents.

Skills Required To Build A Legal Executive Career

You will need exceptional communication abilities and problem-solving and analytical skills to coordinate with the clients. They need negotiation skills and commercial awareness to communicate effectively. The capacity to prioritise activities and plan work is also a plus. Employers demand interpersonal skills, such as working in a group or with other people and organizations. Administrative, numeracy, and information technology skills, along with the ability to work privately, are required. Meticulous attention to detail also leads you to work effectively and efficiently. Excellent research abilities and working under time constraints also come in handy. You can find out more about the newly posted legal executive positions at Simply Law Jobs.