Recovery Litigator

Keoghs; Bolton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Davies Incentive Plan

25 days holiday per year

Simply Health Care Cash Plan

24/7 online GP support

Death In Service after 1 year

Pension Contribution

Cycle to Work Scheme

Tech Scheme

Season Ticket Loan

Gym Flex

Discounted Gourmet Society Membership

Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions

Job summary

A leading legal services provider in Bolton is seeking a Recovery Litigator to manage a portfolio of litigated cases. The ideal candidate will have experience in a legal environment, excellent organizational skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office. This full-time role offers various benefits including 25 days holiday, health cash plan, and participation in incentive programs.

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a legal environment.
• Ability to work to set deadlines.
• IT literate: proficient in Microsoft Office packages.

Responsibilities

• Organise, prioritise and handle own workload to meet deadlines.
• Manage the litigation process effectively to achieve KPIs.
• Deliver quality work meeting audit standards.

Skills

Legal environment experience

Quantum negotiations experience

Organizational skills

Teamwork

Microsoft Office proficiency

Excellent communication

Calm under pressure

Job description

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Description

Keoghs is the leading provider of legal and claims solutions to insurers, businesses and other suppliers to the insurance sector.

Department: Claims Management

Location: Bolton

Overview

Keoghs is the leading provider of legal and claims solutions to insurers, businesses and other suppliers to the insurance sector. The department deals with pursuing subrogated recoveries on behalf of a number of insurer clients. This is a new role in our litigation team. The purpose of the role is to effectively manage a portfolio of Delegated (DA) litigated cases to review and submit to the Court in terms of litigation.

Responsibilities

• Organising, prioritising and handling own workload in line with standard operating procedures to ensure that critical dates are met and KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved.
• Effective management of the litigation process to ensure KPI’s and SLA’s are achieved:
  • Reviewing pre litigation files to ensure ready for litigation
  • Drafting and serving of court documents
  • Liaising with the policyholder including drafting
• Effective use of the case management system to ensure:
  • Reserving and all other key information is accurate and updated in a timely manner.
  • Critical dates are met
  • All actions/strategies are documented by way of a file note
  • All documents in the history are clearly labelled.
• Delivering quality work, as a minimum meeting audit benchmark standards.
• Driving own personal development.
• Contributes to team effort by working collaboratively to ensure that team targets are achieved and by positively contributing to team morale.

Experience, Skills and Qualifications

• Experience of working in a legal environment.
• Preferably experience of quantum negotiations.
• Demonstrate experience of and the ability to:
  • Work to set deadlines
  • Deal with calls and enquiries from customers, suppliers and/or the public
  • Organise and prioritise their workload
  • Work as part of a team
• IT literate: proficient in use of Microsoft Office packages (Excel and Word)
• Excellent listening and verbal communication skills
• Ability to remain calm under pressure
• Ability to take constructive feedback and set personal goals for continuous improvement.

Benefits

• Davies Incentive Plan
• 25 days holiday per year which increases with level of service (opportunity to buy & sell 3 days)
• Simply Health Care Cash Plan
• WeCare – 24/7 online GP, mental health support and virtual wellbeing
• Death In Service – after 1 year’s service
• Pension Contribution based 5% Employee / 3% Employer
• Cycle to Work Scheme*
• Tech Scheme*
• Season Ticket Loan*
• Gym Flex*
• Access to Online Discount Sites
• Discounted Gourmet Society Membership
• Discounted Tickets for Merlin Attractions nationwide
• Discounts at local retail outlets

*after successfully completing probation

Seniority level

• Executive

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Legal

Industries

• Law Practice