Senior Associate - Healthcare

Clyde & Co; Southampton; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Income protection

Gym membership discounts

Car leasing discounts

Mobile phone contracts discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Job summary

Clyde & Co in Southampton is seeking a Senior Associate to join its Tier 1 Healthcare team. The role focuses on defending clinical negligence matters and advising on complex healthcare-related litigation within a large, global firm.

The successful candidate will bring extensive PQE, strong legal skills, and a proven track record in healthcare litigation. The firm supports agile, hybrid working and offers a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 PQE.
• Strong legal skills and initiative; able to manage a full, varied caseload.
• Significant defended clinical negligence / medical malpractice experience, including handling multimillion-pound matters.
• Experience working in the healthcare sector.
• Must have a valid practising certificate; completed Training Contract and relevant legal qualifications (LPC, GDL, 2:1 degree).

Responsibilities

• Applying strong technical skills and legal principles to a range of specific complex problems.
• Drafting and interpreting complex legal documents using specialist knowledge.
• Advising and counselling on claims involving breaches of professional standards.
• Conducting legal discussions and liaising with clients and witnesses.
• Presenting at seminars, writing for publications and hosting client events.
• Understanding our client's business and identifying where the firm can help.
• Preparing court documents.
• Identifying opportunities and developing new or follow‑on business.
• Demonstrating an understanding of the global firm, its offices and practices and actively seeking out cross selling opportunities.
• Understanding and dealing with client expectations, objectives, negotiating position and key concerns.

Skills

PQE 6

Legal skills & initiative

Caseload management

Healthcare sector experience

Defended clinical negligence

Education

Training Contract completed

Legal Practice Course (LPC)

Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL)

2:1 honours degree

Job description

Senior Associate - Healthcare - Southampton

We are looking to attract a number of Associates to join our Tier 1 Healthcare team in our Southampton office. Our Healthcare practice have just been awarded - Investors in People Gold, 2023. This is a team committed to engagement, high quality work, and outstanding performance.

The Team

Driven by the unprecedented demands of an ageing global population and growing levels of lifestyle-related chronic diseases around the world, the global healthcare sector is undergoing a period of rapid change.

Our multidisciplinary global healthcare group draws upon expertise across the firm and comprises of lawyers who specialises who specialise in litigation, coroner's inquests, the Court of Protection, capacity and consent, projects and construction, real estate, corporate, insurance, intellectual property, commercial, IT, regulatory and employment.

Our clients include public and private hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, healthcare suppliers and distributors as well as healthcare companies, private equity firms specialising in healthcare investments, health ministries and authorities.

Our extensive office network across the UK & Europe, US, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East enables us to deliver a seamless integrated service to our healthcare clients around the globe.

Key Responsibilities

• Applying strong technical skills and legal principles to a range of specific complex problems;
• Drafting and interpreting complex legal documents using specialist knowledge;
• Advising and counselling on claims involving breaches of professional standards;
• Conducting legal discussions and liaising with clients and witnesses;
• Presenting at seminars, writing for publications and hosting client events;
• Understanding our client's business and identifying where the firm can help;
• Preparing court documents;
• Identifying opportunities and developing new or follow‑on business;
• Demonstrating an understanding of the global firm, its offices and practices and actively seeking out cross selling opportunities;
• Understanding and dealing with client expectations, objectives, negotiating position and key concerns.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Candidates will ideally have a minimum of 6 PQE. Please note that our PQE levels are a guide and all suitable candidates will be considered;
• Display excellent legal skills and initiative, as well as managing and prioritising a full and varied caseload;
• The ideal candidate will have significant relevant experience in defended clinical negligence practice including medical malpractice and experience dealing with multimillion pound matters;
• The ideal candidate will have experience working within the healthcare sector;
• The solicitors act 1974 requires practicing solicitors to have a practicing certificate; Successful completion of a Training Contract (or equivalent) and relevant education (Legal Practice Course; Graduate Diploma in Law (if non Law graduate); 2:1 honours degree or equivalent; A Levels)

We offer a nurturing and collaborative environment and agile hybrid ways of working in our offices. Our company benefits include 25 days holiday allowance plus the option to purchase more, pension scheme, health cash plan, life assurance and income protection. We also offer a number of discounts to use for gym membership, car leasing, mobile phones contracts and insurance products and a cycle to work scheme.

Clyde & Co is committed to promoting equality and diversity in all aspects of employment.

The Firm

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 500 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

Our Commitment

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity. Learn more about our interview process.

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This is the job description as constituted at present; however, Clyde & Co reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.