Assistant Lawyer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Keoghs

Keoghs

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

This role offers an excellent opportunity to work with Oliver Goodman in our Complex Injury Claims Team dealing with large loss claims.

In this role you will assist with the handling of complex, high value RTA multi-track cases. Experience of indemnity, liability and complex medical issues is required and excellent attention to detail essential. Your work will be supervised and feedback given. The role also includes the need to engage with sophisticated senior claims handlers in long-standing insurance clients.

In this role you may also be required to assist your Lead in activities which enhance and develop Keoghs' profile.

This role is open to full or part time hours hours per week

Key Accountabilities

You will work as part of a team progressing each file from receipt of papers from the insurer client to resolution of the claim

The role will include:

Working with the Lead to manage a caseload of complex injury claims including high value multitrack and catastrophic injury claims involving brain injury, serious orthopaedic, amputation and fatal claims.
Communicating with sophisticated insurer clients, dealing with their queries and updating them as the matter progresses.
Forensic analysis of voluminous quantum evidence, preparing chronologies, identifying anomalies and other relevant information across various sources and categories of evidence.
Using your existing knowledge of complex injury symptomology to identify relevant issues within medical records in order to instruct medical experts, drawing key issues to their attention.
Critical analysis of sources of liability evidence and identifying any gaps.
Drafting concise technical advice on all aspects of claim handling to include advice on reserves, indemnity, liability, quantum and causation issues and claims resolution for strategy discussion with the Lead Lawyer.
Proactively identifying next steps required on matter, discussing those aspects with the Lead Lawyer and taking action as agreed.
Interviewing witnesses and drafting statements.
Liaising with parties involved in claims including the insured, insurer, witnesses etc.
Instructing counsel and attending conferences, JSMs, mediations both remotely and in person.
Attend court in person or by telephone, attend trials, settlement conferences etc as required.
Delivery of agreed performance targets and quality standards.
Delegate assigned tasks to a Complex Injury Paralegal and be fully engaged in their development in terms of technical ability and achievement of objectives.
Maintaining case managements systems with up to date management information for clients.
To ensure compliance with the SRA standards & regulations

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

We are looking for a high standard of lawyer / solicitor / legal executive who has excellent communication skills, can prioritise tasks, work to deadlines and work as part of a team to deliver exceptional work standards as well as:
Experience of indemnity, liability and quantum
Experience of catastrophic / large loss cases involving complex medical issues essential.

Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our five values are at the heart of everything we do

Keoghs values:
ü We are connected
ü We are dynamic
ü We are innovative
ü We succeed together

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