Solicitor/Associate - Clinical Risk

DAC Beachcroft; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

DAC Beachcroft is seeking a Solicitor/Associate for its Clinical Risk team in Leeds. This role involves managing a diverse caseload of clinical negligence cases for a range of clients, ensuring high-quality legal support and client engagement. The ideal candidate will have experience in clinical negligence and an eagerness to contribute to a dynamic team within an award-winning firm.

Qualifications

• Solicitor/Associate with experience in clinical negligence or related areas.
• Proven strong technical and organisational skills.
• Team-oriented with a willingness to mentor.

Responsibilities

• Handle a challenging caseload of clinical negligence work.
• Draft legal documents and prepare cases for court deadlines.
• Engage in direct client care and provide commercially focused advice.

Skills

Clinical negligence

Personal injury

Civil litigation

Insurance law

Strong technical skills

Organisational skills

Client focused

Team oriented

Education

Solicitor qualification

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DAC Beachcroft are seeking a Solicitor/Associate to join our Leeds office. This role presents an excellent opportunity for an ambitious and passionate individual to join an award-winning, progressive and highly specialised team.

Our Clinical Risk cluster is the biggest nationally- handling a challenging but fulfilling caseload of defendant clinical negligence work- acting for a variety of clients, which may include work for NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts, MDU, independent providers, and medical malpractice insurers.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Handling a challenging but fulfilling caseload of defendant clinical negligence work acting for a variety of clients, which may include work for NHS Resolution, NHS Trusts, MDU, independent providers, and medical malpractice insurers.
• Drafting legal documents, conducting face to face negotiations and mediation of claims, preparing cases for and adhering to court deadlines.
• Engaging in direct client care, acting as first and primary contact for clients on a day to day basis, providing them with commercially focused legal advice, and adhering to their protocols and processes.
• Making an appropriate contribution to non-fee-earning activity. You will be encouraged to participate in knowledge sharing, training, client seminars, writing articles for publication both for in-house and external publications, and business development.

Key Technical / Knowledge:

• A Solicitor/Associate with experience in clinical negligence, personal injury, civil litigation, or insurance law.
• Experience of an NHS Resolution or MDO panel firm would be desirable but is not essential. We want the best candidates no matter what their background is.
• Strong technical and organisational skills to ensure a pragmatic and methodical approach to handling a variety of clinical negligence claims simultaneously, through an IT case management system.
• A demonstrable ability to adopt a commercial perspective rather than an ‘academic' approach to legal issues and to be highly client focused.
• Team oriented and collegiate with a willingness to mentor, coach and supervise less experienced members of teams.

About DAC Beachcroft

We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago, and Singapore, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.

At DAC Beachcroft, we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Law Practice

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