Solicitor Advocate

Kennedys; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Solicitor Advocate to join their leading Motor team within the Liability Defence department. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, providing expert advocacy and strategic litigation services to major insurers and corporates. The role involves representing clients in various hearings, advising on complex liability issues, and mentoring junior team members. With a focus on personal injury cases, this position offers a supportive team culture and clear career progression opportunities, making it ideal for those looking to make a significant impact in the legal field.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonus structure

Hybrid working arrangements

Collaborative team environment

Career progression opportunities

Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience in litigation and advocacy, ideally in motor litigation.
• Strong courtroom experience handling hearings and trials independently.

Responsibilities

• Represent clients at OIC and MOJ hearings, trials, and application hearings.
• Draft pleadings, skeleton arguments, and legal opinions.

Skills

Litigation

Advocacy

Communication Skills

Personal Injury Law

Motor Claims

Education

Qualified Solicitor

Barrister

FCILEx Qualified

Job description

• Salary:Competitive
• Office Region:United Kingdom
• Office Location:Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield
• Division/Department:Liability Defence
• Working Pattern:Full Time - Perm
• Role Type:Hybrid

Kennedys is looking for aSolicitor Advocateto join our market-leadingMotor teamwithin ourLiability Defence department. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a dynamic, highly regarded team that advises major insurers, self-insured corporates, and fleet operators.

Team

OurMotor teamis one of the leading legal teams in the UK for handling defendant motor claims, providing expert advocacy, litigation strategy, and advisory services. The team represents insurers, large corporates, and self-insured entities in defending claims ranging from low-value disputes to high-value, complex injury litigation.

Key Responsibilities

• Representing clients atOIC and MOJhearings, trials and application hearings.
• Conductingadvocacy inthe County Courtin relation to motor-related litigation.
• Advising clients onclaim strategies, procedural matters, and complex liability issues.
• Handlingpersonal injurycases, ensuring a proactive and strategic approach to litigation.
• Drafting pleadings, skeleton arguments, and legal opinions.
• Working collaboratively with partners, legal directions, senior associates, associates, and litigation assistants to providepragmatic and commercial legal solutions.
• Mentoring and developing junior team members in advocacy and litigation skills.

Required Experience

• Qualified Solicitor, FCILEx qualified or Barrister.
• 2+ years' experiencein litigation and advocacy, ideally withinmotor litigation, or personal injury cases.
• Strongcourtroom experience, with a proven ability to handlehearings, trials, and applicationsindependently.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear and strategic advice to clients.
• Experience handlingcredit hire, indemnity, fraud, and serious/catastrophic injury claimsis advantageous.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and bonus structure.
• Hybrid workingand flexible working arrangements.
• Asupportive and collaborative team environmentwith clear career progression opportunities.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Ourvaluesare at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles.A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebratediversity,empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work.We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority.We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work.Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.