Paralegal - Complex Injury

DAC Beachcroft; Newport; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Discounted gym membership

Flexible working

Job summary

DAC Beachcroft in Newport is seeking a Paralegal to support the Complex Injury team on high-value, catastrophic injury files for insurers and corporates. You will assist lawyers in managing claims, maintaining case files and ensuring timely progression of matters.

The role requires experience handling litigious bodily injury claims, excellent communication and organisational skills, and a commercial, team-oriented approach to working with clients and colleagues.

Qualifications

• Experience handling litigated bodily injury claims.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Genuine interest in complex and catastrophic injury work.
• Good commercial awareness and teamwork.”

Responsibilities

• Manage claims, meet service level agreements and maintain case documents.
• Assist with investigations, instruct experts, handle disclosure and liaise with counsel.
• Keep timetables and key dates up to date; prompt action on diarised matters.
• Provide point of contact for clients and handle routine communications to progress cases.

Skills

Litigation experience

Paralegal experience

Interest in complex injuries

Commercial awareness

Job description

Department: CSG - Casualty (EL/PL / Complex Injury / Disease / Fraud / Motor Injury / Vehicle Hire and Damage)

Location: Newport

Department: CSG - Casualty (EL/PL / Complex Injury / Disease / Fraud / Motor Injury / Vehicle Hire and Damage)

Location: Newport

Description

The Complex Injury team is looking for a Paralegal to join the team. You will provide assistance to lawyers in the team in running complex and catastrophic injury files of a high value and importance to our clients.

The Complex Injury team works on behalf of insurance companies and corporates, investigating and resolving high value personal injury compensation claims. This is an exciting time to join as you will be part of a new and expanding team.

CSG advises insurers and corporate clients in their defence of claims of all values, types and complexity. Our National team whose clients are a mix of leading names in the insurance industry as well as household name corporates, deal with all aspects of defendant litigation, including complex and catastrophic injury. Increasingly, the team is getting involved in pre-emptive advice on these issues as well as dispute resolution.

What you will do?

You are expected to provide a timely, professional and high-quality service to our clients in the management of claims. Depending on your role, and with the support of a supervisor and team manager you will be expected to:

• Comply with internal and external service level agreements.
• Handle confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols.
• Ensure appropriate key dates reminders are in place on all matters.
• Ensure that a timetable exists to enable the progression of the case to resolution.
• Prompt the principal lawyer to action matters diarised.
• Maintain internal and external case management documents.
• Record timely and accurate management information.
• Maintain an awareness of the firm's strategies and plans.
• Develop technical knowledge through completing online courses, attending training sessions and reading appropriate publications.
• Act as a point of contact for clients.
• Handle routine correspondence and communications with the client, third parties and claimants’ solicitors to ensure the progression of the case to resolution.
• Assume responsibility for agreed tasks on a claim including assisting with investigations, instructing experts, handling disclosure and instructing counsel.
• Meeting individual financial targets.
• Assist / complete MI where appropriate.
• Liaise with accounts on billing queries.

Who you are

• A keen interest in working on complex and catastrophic injury claims.
• Experience of dealing with litigated bodily injury claims.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills and an eye for detail.
• Good commercial awareness with an ability to provide commercially rounded advice to clients and view matters from a business perspective.
• A flexible attitude with an ability to adapt to rapid change, both internally and in the context of clients' businesses.
• The ability to work as a team player with a collegiate approach to knowledge sharing and problem solving, both internally and with the clients.
• Demonstrates alignment with the Firm’s Cultural Principles (Clear, Creative, Determined and Supportive).

What's in it for you?

• High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance - https://jobs.dacbeachcroft.com/whats-in-it-for-you/
• A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits)
• Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding
• In person and remote social events
• Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, which aligns closely to our cultural principles (Determined, Clear, Creative and Supportive). If you are excited about this role and being part of our culture, but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies

DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).

Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

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