Grade A Solicitor AOD North

Irwin Mitchell LLP; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holidays + buy up to 35hrs

Generous pension schemes

Volunteering days

Westfield Health & Aviva Digital GP

Hybrid by Choice – flexible work

Best Workplaces wellbeing 2024

Social Responsibility & Pro Bono

Job summary

Irwin Mitchell LLP is seeking a Grade A Solicitor with approximately 8-12 years' PQE and a strong background in Asbestos and Occupational Disease litigation. You will own your litigated caseload and assist senior colleagues on high value matters, while providing clients with exceptional advice.

The role sits in our Newcastle office within the Asbestos & Occupational Disease Team. You will work closely with clients and families, demonstrate empathy and integrity, and develop business

Qualifications

• Approximately 8-12 years PQE with Asbestos and Occupational Disease experience.
• Ability to work with empathy and integrity.
• Experience managing your own caseload, while also assisting Partners and senior team members on high value cases.
• Clear enthusiasm for this area of law and a commitment to achieving the best outcomes for clients.
• Aptitude for business development and building strong client and referrer relationships.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including high quality drafting and undertaking detailed research.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of your own litigated caseload and assist senior colleagues on high value or complex matters.
• Provide exceptional legal advice to clients to achieve the best outcomes.
• Work closely with clients and families at difficult moments to ensure support throughout the claim.
• Contribute to case strategy with senior team members and partners.
• Conduct legal research and drafting as part of case work.

Skills

PQE 8-12 years

Asbestos & Occupational Disease

Empathy & integrity

Client management

Business development

Drafting & research

Job description

for Newcastle, Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield.

Your Role and What You'll Be Doing

We are seeking a Grade A Solicitor with approximately 8-12 years' PQE and a strong background in Asbestos and Occupational Disease litigation. You'll join a highly respected specialist disease practice working with clients diagnosed with a wide spectrum of asbestos related and non asbestos respiratory conditions. This includes mesothelioma, asbestos related lung cancer, asbestosis, pleural thickening, occupational asthma, silicosis and other workplace related respiratory illnesses. This is an exciting opportunity to enhance your litigation skills while also taking ownership of your own litigated caseload, as well as assisting senior colleagues on high value or complex matters. You'll work closely with clients and their families at difficult moments in their lives, ensuring they receive exceptional advice and the highest standard of support throughout their claim.

About You

You’ll work closely with clients and providing them with exceptional legal advice to achieve the best possible resolution for our clients.

You’ll have the opportunity to get involved in an interesting and diverse caseload and right from the beginning you’ll play a key part in securing justice for our clients and making a real difference in their lives. You will have the confidence to hit the ground‑running and have the ability to work independently on litigated cases.

• Approximately 8-12 years PQE with Asbestos and Occupational Disease experience
• The ability to work with empathy and integrity
• Experience managing your own caseload, while also assisting Partners and senior team members on high value cases
• A clear enthusiasm for this area of law and a commitment to achieving the best outcomes for clients
• An aptitude for business development and a passion for building strong client and referrer relationships
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including high quality drafting and undertaking detailed

Reference: 6416

We're a national law firm with a local reach. Our legal experts are here for you. Whether it's personal or business, we understand that everyone's situation is different. But we're more than just a law firm - we're a team of people working together to help individuals and businesses navigate life's ups and downs. Working here you'll feel a part of our friendly and inclusive environment. We'll value you for who you are and what you bring. We support each other and push boundaries to achieve incredible things and make a real difference to our clients and communities. We're always looking to support our colleagues to work in a way that works best for them and everyone else, including our clients, the business and the regulators.

Role and What You'll Be Doing

This role is based out of our Newcastle office and sits within our Asbestos and Occupational Disease Team, led by Ian Toft, Regional Lead Partner.

Legal research

Our Benefits - What We Can Offer You

• 25 days holidays as standard plus bank holidays - You can 'buy' up to 35hrs of extra holiday too.
• Generous and flexible pension schemes.
• Volunteering days - Two days of volunteering every year for a cause of your choice (fully paid)
• Westfield Health membership, offering refunds on medical services alongside our Aviva Digital GP services.
• We also offer a wide range of well-being initiatives to encourage positive mental health both in and out of the workplace and to make sure you're fully supported. This includes our Flexible by Choice programme which gives our colleagues more choice over a hybrid way of working subject to role, team and client requirements.
• We have been ranked in the Best Workplaces for Wellbeing for Large Organisations for 2024!
• Our responsible business programmes are fundamental to who we are and our purpose. We're committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace where our colleagues can flourish, and we have established a number of inclusion network groups across our business to support this aim. Our commitment to Social Responsibility, community investment activity and tackling climate change is a fundamental part of who we are. It's made up of four strands: Our People, Our Community, Our Environment and Our Pro Bono.

Additional Information As part of the Irwin Mitchell Group's on-boarding process all successful applicants are required to complete the group's employment screening process. This process helps to ensure that all new employees meet our standards in relation to honesty and integrity therefore protecting the interests of the Group, colleagues, clients, partners and other stakeholders. We carry out pre employment screening to establish your eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record and financial checks with our trusted 3rd parties. The employment screening process will fully comply with Data Protection and other applicable laws.

Irwin Mitchell LLP is an equal opportunity employer.

Sub-Department:Asbestos & Occupational Disease Sub-Division:Personal Injury Company:IM LLP Vacancy Type:Permanent :Newcastle Salary:Competitive