We have a fantastic opportunity for a Clinical Negligence lawyer to join our highly regarded, friendly and progressive team.
You will be handling high quality cases for claimants who have suffered severe, life-changing injuries.
Ranked by Chambers and Legal 500, our well-regarded Clinical Negligence team comprises of 4 Partners, an Associate, a trainee Solicitor and 2 Paralegals. With a client centred approach, our team specialises in managing cases where the injuries sustained are life changing.
Day to day, you’ll be successful in this role by:
You will be representing claimants across a varied and busy caseload including clinical negligence matters relating to birth injury and cases of maximum severity, spinal injuries, amputations, delay in diagnosing cancer, neurological injuries, cardiology, vascular surgery, orthopaedics, urology and gynaecology and a wide range of high value catastrophic personal injury matters.
You will have the opportunity to manage your own caseload, while also assisting the Partners and senior team members on high value cases.
This is an opportunity for the right candidate to progress their legal career within our highly regarded, friendly and progressive team.
It is an integral part of this role that you comply with information security and all firm policies and procedures.
This role is right for you if:
You will be a well-established Lawyer with experience from a leading firm with up to 5 years post-qualification experience. With a strong background in Clinical Negligence work.
You will need to be technically excellent but equally, commercially aware. You will also have experience or a keen interest in using Social Media platforms as part of your role.
As a team player with a client focussed approach you will be keen to get involved in business development activities within the team as a whole, having begun to build up strong local professional connections.
A strong academic background and excellent communication and organisational skills are essential for this role.
You will be someone who likes to be proactive, and who is flexible working both individually and as part of a team, with minimal supervision, able to manage a number of different cases and clients effectively.
Communication will be one of your strong points, both written and oral, and you will be enthusiastic about delivering excellent quality service to our clients.
We expect you to be able to use your initiative, and be a forward-planner, anticipating our clients’ needs in advance wherever possible.