Solicitor - Casualty Injury - Northern Ireland

DAC Beachcroft Dublin; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

DAC Beachcroft Dublin is seeking an experienced Solicitor for its Casualty Injury team in Belfast. This role involves handling varied and complex claims while providing top-notch legal advice. The firm values communication, organizational skills, and attention to detail, and offers a supportive work environment with a well-rounded remuneration package.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Discounted gym membership

Opportunities for growth and progression

In-person and remote social events

Qualifications

• Solicitor with at least 5 years' experience in employers' liability, public liability, or disease claims.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain legal matters clearly.
• Detail-oriented and able to work independently and collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload of pre-litigation and litigated work, including cases with disputed liability.
• Support team marketing and business development activities and maintain awareness of firm procedures.
• Supervise within the team, ensuring targets for financial performance are met.

Skills

Communication

Organizational Skills

Attention to Detail

Legal Knowledge

Job description

Solicitor - Casualty Injury - Northern Ireland

Join to apply for the Solicitor - Casualty Injury - Northern Ireland role at DAC Beachcroft Dublin

Solicitor - Casualty Injury - Northern Ireland

3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Join to apply for the Solicitor - Casualty Injury - Northern Ireland role at DAC Beachcroft Dublin

Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

Application Deadline: 11 July 2025

Department: CSG - Casualty (EL/PL / CAT PI / Disease / Fraud / Motor / Credit Hire)

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: Belfast

Description

We have an opportunity for an experienced solicitor to join our Northern Ireland Casualty Injury team based in Belfast.

This is a fantastic opportunity to develop a career with a market-leading law firm, with the successful candidates handling a varied caseload including all types of employers' liability, public liability, and disease claims.

We advise insurers and corporate clients in the 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, to include catastrophic injury, clinical negligence, motor, casualty, disease, product, professional negligence and health and safety. Increasingly, the team is getting involved in pre-emptive advice on these issues as well as dispute resolution.

What you will do?

• Running, and assisting with a varied case load of pre-litigation and litigated work. These will include cases where liability is disputed.
• Supervision responsibilities within the team.
• Hit, maintain and apply a consistent approach to all individual targets of financial performance, realisation rates, settlement rate and average claim spend.
• Support marketing and business development activity within the team e.g. attending marketing events and client training.
• Maintain an awareness of firm's procedures and strategies.
• Maintain and develop technical knowledge through attendance at training sessions, reading appropriate publications.
• Handling confidential information in line with the firm's data security protocols.
  
  

Who you are

• A Solicitor with a keen interest and enthusiasm for employers and public liability personal injury defence litigation and disease claims to include NIHL and asbestos claims.
• You must be able to demonstrate and have at least 5 years' experience in relation to Northern Ireland employers liability, public liability or disease claims.
• Able to adopt a commercial perspective to legal issues with a concern for quality of service.
• A confident communicator who can communicate clearly and concisely, both verbally and in written form.
• Excellent organisational skills and able to effectively prioritise and manage own workload.
• Detail conscious and able to produce work to a high standard.
• Able to work on own initiative as well as to work with and learn from supervisors and other members of the department.
• A team player with a flexible and self-motivated approach.
• 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!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Other

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Law Practice

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at DAC Beachcroft Dublin by 2x

Sign in to set job alerts for “Solicitor” roles.

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 3 days ago

Hillsborough, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 4 months ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 months ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 4 days ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 4 months ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 3 weeks ago

Associate Legal Counsel – Investor Services

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 days ago

Custody Legal Counsel – Investor Services

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 3 days ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 days ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 4 days ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 4 days ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 days ago

Litigation Solicitor (Defence Litigation - Fraud)

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 3 days ago

Head of Legal & Information Governance (Assistant Director - Corporate Services)

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1 month ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Legal Officer, Anti-poverty (Social Security Rights) Project

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 5 days ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Reorganisations / Cross Border Transactions and Integrations Lawyer

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 4 months ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 1 week ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom £40,000.00-£45,000.00 2 weeks ago

Reorganisations/Cross Border Transactions and Integrations Lawyer

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 3 days ago

Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom 2 weeks ago

We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.