Job DescriptionJob Title: Large Loss Lawyer / Solicitor / Legal Executive – Personal Injury
Location: Newcastle / Flexible
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent
ABOUT US:
We are a leading Personal Injury law firm with a strong reputation in our field, specialising in complex, high-value claims. Our Complex Injury teams are dedicated to providing exceptional legal service to clients and we have market-leading advisors who are at the forefront in the defence of complex and catastrophic injury claims. We are currently recruiting for an RTA Large Loss Lawyer
With team members based in all of our office locations across the UK, we are able to provide national coverage to a long list of major insurers, public bodies, and corporate clients. Our Chambers and Legal 500 recognised team has an exceptional track-record in dealing with complex and catastrophic claims.
With a unique collaborative approach, that promotes the sharing of information between teams, we ensure a consistently high level of service provision, as well as enhancing the team ethos within our clients’ teams.
We also work with our opponents, seeking to achieve a fair outcome at the earliest possible opportunity. This not only enables us to deal with individual claims but to look more widely to identify claim trends and opponent’s strategies to ensure clients have that insight at the earliest possible stage.
Keoghs’ reputation for innovation speaks for itself. Our five Special Interest Groups (‘SIGs’) – made up of teams of leading experts from across our offices, focussing on key injury groups within this sphere – ensure that we always provide clients with the very latest insight and advice, while standardising and rationalising internal handling processes
Your Role:
As the next Large Loss Lawyer to join the team you will be responsible for:
- Handling your own case load of large loss RTA claims mostly valued between £25,000 and £100,000 with some cases up to £150,000.
- Communicating with insurer clients, dealing with queries and providing progress updates
- Forensic analysis of often 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 as appropriate.
- Proactively identifying next steps required on matter, discussing those aspects with the Lead Lawyer as relevant, and taking action as agreed.
- Interviewing witnesses and drafting statements.
- Liaising with parties involved in claims including the insured, insurer, witnesses etc.
- Drafting pleadings and applications.
- 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.
- Dealing with costs budgets in conjunction with costs lawyers.
- Delivery of agreed performance targets and quality standards.
- Delegating assigned tasks for an Assistant/ Complex Injury Paralegal and be fully engaged in their development in terms of technical ability and achievement of objectives.
- Maintaining case management systems with up-to-date management information for clients.
Location:
The primary location for this role is Newcastle Office although other Keoghs offices will be considered. The successful candidate must be flexible to commute to the Newcastle office on an ad-hoc basis to interact with their peers. Frequency will be discussed at recruitment stage.
ABOUT YOU:
As well as all the key elements that already make you a successful lawyer we are essentially looking for:
- Qualified solicitor, CILEX or proven relevant legal experience – it is essential you have handled cases up to £100K in your own name
- Experience of indemnity and RTA liability and complex medical issues and causation is essential.
- Experience working in a similar role assisting on large loss and/or catastrophic injury claims
- Ideally you will have defendant experience but we will consider a claimant background
- Desire to want to develop more junior members of the team
Compensation & Benefits:
Salary to be discussed on application, hybrid working 1 day minimum per week in office remainder remote working, private medical insurance, permanent health insurance, critical illness cover, Health Care Cash Plan, Holidays 25 days plus 8 bank holidays (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days), holidays rise to 26 days after 5 years’ service and 27 days after 10 years’ service, Death In Service – after 1 year, Employer Pension Contribution, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tech Scheme, Season Ticket Loan, Gym Flex
Values:
Our culture is focussed on making Keoghs sustainable and successful for our people and clients, with this our four 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