Newly Qualified Solicitor – Personal Injury
Bluetownonline
- Greater Manchester
- £33,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- At least six months experience within the Personal Injury sector
- Exceptional client care and quality control skills
- Experience with initial client inception (including risk assessments, setting up the file and relevant paperwork)
- Previous exposure to providing client advice
- The ability to handle a caseload with supervision
- Previous exposure to providing client advice, instructing experts, analysing reports and valuations advantageous
- Ideally you will have drafted particulars for service, prepared quantum evidence, schedules of loss, instructed counsel, drafted witness statement and replies
- Proven billing track record of handling a litigated caseload
- A focus on advancing cases to and through litigation to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients
- Knowledge of the civil procedure rules, precedent, trends in litigation, and an ability and willingness to utilise the same to achieve the best possible outcome for our clients
- Demonstrable experience of dealing with litigated files from inception, through applications and challenges, to trial / disposal hearing
- Knowledge of Proclaim case management system
- 3/2 alternative working from home pattern staff after probation.
- 23 days holiday a year, rising to 26 days
- 3 holiday buy backs per year after one year of service
- Extra day’s holiday for your birthday after two years’ service
- Private medical insurance available after two years’ service
- Death in Service
- Active social committee with generous departmental and firm-wide social budget.
- Active training culture and various groups and events such as Diversity & Inclusion.
- Netball / Football team, 10km Manchester team and more
- Enhanced Maternity Leave payment if you have over 1 year tenure
- Other benefits including Employee Assistance Programme, free fruit & annual flu jab